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A Francesca Lia Block Shrine
http://glowinthedarkstars.com/
A fan site dedicated to the fantasy writer Francesca Lia Block. Includes book descriptions, chapter excerpts, reviews, interviews, articles, discussion forums, and more.

Charles De Lint
http://www.cyberus.ca/~cdl/
This is the personal site of one of my favourite authors, Charles De Lint. He's usually classed as a fantasy writer, but most of his work is far from the sort of shallow sword-and-sorcery adventure people often associate with that term. His novels and stories deal with the emergence of magic in the modern world, and meld together different world mythologies into a sort of crazy-quilt that suits the culturally hybrid nature of our modern cities. Combine that with brilliant writing and engaging characters that feel like people you might actually know and you end up feeling that the sort of strange spontaneous magical happenings he writes about might be right around the corner in your own daily life...

The Dreaming: a Neil Gaiman site
http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/
A fan site dedicated to another of my favourite writers, who also tends to deal with magic in the modern world, though with a bit of a darker flavour that sometimes straddles the boundary between horror and fantasy. Gaiman initially became famous for the Sandman comic book series, which pioneered a more mature, adult-oriented (no, not in the euphemistic sense of porn!) style of comic writing, and won a World Fantasy Award, much to the consternation of purists who didn't see how a comic book could qualify as "real" fantasy literature. But he's since become equally well known for his novels. Both they and the Sandman comics are well worth checking out. This site offers news, reviews, and even academic papers on the significance of Gaiman's work.