Summary (Library of Congress description):

Original title: The Golden Key
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Original Creations

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Fantastic Imagination II, the (1978) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Selma Lagerlöf , Lloyd Alexander , Lord Dunsany , Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore , Patricia A. McKillip , Joan Aiken , Barry Pain , David H. Keller , George MacDonald , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Kenneth Morris , Evangeline Walton , Eric Linklater , Vera Chapman
     Victorian Fairy Tale Book, the (1988) [Anthology]
      Authors: Charles Dickens , Edith Nesbit , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , James M. Barrie , Kenneth Grahame , William Makepeace Thackeray , Robert Browning , George MacDonald , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Mary de Morgan , John Ruskin , Henry Morley , William Allingham , Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , Ford Madox Ford
     Treasury of the Fantastic, the (2001) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lewis Carroll , M. R. James , Edgar Allan Poe , Rudyard Kipling , Emily Dickinson , Ambrose Bierce , George Gordon Byron , E. M. Forster , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Henry James , John Keats , Edith Nesbit , Mary Shelley , Alfred Tennyson , Mark Twain , H. G. Wells , Edith Wharton , Oscar Wilde , Virginia Woolf , William Butler Yeats , Lord Dunsany , Algernon Blackwood , Robert W. Chambers , Kenneth Grahame , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Robert Louis Stevenson , Washington Irving , A.E. Housman , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , W. W. Jacobs , James Hogg , George MacDonald , Laurence Housman , Frank R. Stockton , Walter de la Mare , Christina Rossetti , Lucy Lane Clifford , Max Beerbohm , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Kenneth Morris , Margaret Oliphant , William Austin , Edward Lear , Richard Middleton , I. A. Ireland
     Mammoth Book of Fantasy, the (2001) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Roger Zelazny , Harlan Ellison , Tanith Lee , Charles de Lint , Lord Dunsany , Lucius Shepard , Michael Moorcock , Louise Cooper , James P. Blaylock , Jack Vance , Robert E. Howard , Fritz Leiber , Clark Ashton Smith , Patricia A. McKillip , Abraham Merritt , Michael Swanwick , Theodore Sturgeon , Jack Womack , Darrell Schweitzer , Lisa Goldstein , Theodore R. Cogswell , George MacDonald , James Cawthorn
     Tales Before Tolkien (2003) [Anthology]
      Authors: L. Frank Baum , Edith Nesbit , Lord Dunsany , William Hope Hodgson , Arthur Machen , Abraham Merritt , John Buchan , James Branch Cabell , George MacDonald , Frank R. Stockton , William Morris , H. Rider Haggard , Ludwig Tieck , E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen , Richard Garnett , Andrew Lang , Clemence Housman , Kenneth Morris , Francis Stevens , E.A. Wyke-Smith , Austin Tappan Wright , David Lindsay

Notes:

• "The Golden Key" was the inspiration for Tolkien's story "Smith of Wootton Major".