A headless body and a clue-free crime scene. Never a good way to start the day..

To commemorate High Five a Librarian Day, I've put together a list of fantasy books, TV shows and movies that prominently feature librarians or libraries.

It wasn’t a promising introduction to a new planet: yanked from Earth, held captive and experimented on by a mad witch.

A mysterious stranger rides into a corrupt, violence-ridden town and proceeds to clean things up in his own no-holds-barred fashion. Set that in the Wild Wild West and you’ve got the plot of every spaghetti Western movie. Put it in a medieval fantasy world and you have Brutal, a novel very much in the tradition of pulp-era S&S classics like Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories and Clark Ashton Smith’s Hyperborean cycle.

Getting captured by the king can ruin your whole rebellion.