Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II

Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II

Cover of the first edition.
Editor	Lin Carter
Cover artist	Gervasio Gallardo
Language	English
Series	Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1973
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	viii, 248
Preceded by	Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I
Followed by	Kingdoms of Sorcery

Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II is an anthology of fantasy novellas, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in March, 1973[1] as the fifty-sixth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series.[2] It was the ninth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.[1][2]

Summary

The book collects four novellas by as many fantasy authors, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter. It is a companion volume to Carter's earlier Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I (1972).[1][2]

Contents

• "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
• "The Woman in the Mirror" (George Macdonald, Phantastes)
• "The Repairer of Reputations" (Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow)
• "The Transmutation of Ling" (Ernest Bramah, The Wallet of Kai Lung)
• "The Lavender Dragon" (Eden Phillpotts, The Lavender Dragon)

Reception

Theodore Sturgeon reported the stories "run from great to quaint."[3]

The book was also reviewed by Everett F. Bleiler in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983.[1]

Notes

1. Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2. Carter, Lin. "Bibliography II: The Adult Fantasy Series," in Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy, Ballantine Books, 1973.
3. Sturgeon, Theodore. "Galaxy Bookshelf", in Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1973, p. 88.