Magic and adventure from the Age of Legend.

Contents:

• Dramatis Personae: A guide to Arthurian characters by Mike Ashley
• Introduction by Mike Ashley
• Dream Reader by Jane Yolen (1986 )
• The Temptations of Merlin by Peter Tremayne
• Infantasm by Robert Holdstock
• The Pledged Word by Marion Zimmer Bradley extract from "The Mists of Avalon" (1983)
• The Horse Who Would Be King by Jennifer Roberson (1992)
• A Sword for Arthur by Vera Chapman extract from the unpublished novel "The Enchantress"
• The Rite of Challenge by Peter Valentine Timlett adapted extract from unpublished novel "Merlin and the Sword of Avalon"
• Merlin’s Dark Mirror by Phyllis Ann Karr
• The Purpose of Merlin by Colin R. Fry (1965)
• Merlin and Tom Thumb by Dinah Maria Mulock (1863)
• The Seven Champions by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton (1906)
• Morte d’Espier by Maxey Brooke (1955)
• King’s Mage by Tanith Lee
• A Quest Must End by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (1948)
• Namer of Beasts, Maker of Souls: The Romance of Sylvester and Nimuë by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Sleeper and the Seer by H. Warner Munn extract from "i>King of the World's Edge" (1939)
• Midwinter by David Sutton
• The Death of Nimuë by Esther Friesner (1985)
• The Knight of Pale Countenance by Darrell Schweitzer
• The Castle of Kerglas by Emile Souvestre original in collection "Le Foyer Breton" (1844)
• Ogier the Dane by William Morris & Madalen Edgar (1919) prose adaptation of a narrative poem from "The Earthly Paradise" (1870)
• Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood by Charles de Lint (1990)