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“The Three,” Startling Stories, May 1953. © Better Publications, Inc., 1953.

“Walker Between the Planes,” Worlds of Fantasy #2, 1970. © Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., 1970.
“The Last Dream,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1960. © Mercury Press, Inc., 1960.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ST. DRAGON AND THE GEORGE

THE PRESENT STATE OF IGNEOS RESEARCH

YE PRENTICE AND YE DRAGON

A CASE HISTORY

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WOLF

SALMANAZAR

WITH BUTTER AND MUSTARD

THE AMULET

THE HAUNTED VILLAGE

THE THREE

WALKER BETWEEN THE PLANES

THE LAST DREAM

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

by Sandra Miesel

All real living is making—of truth and beauty, of goodness and love. “If you are not making,” said a wise
man, “you cannot possibly be happy because it is the destiny of every man to be a maker.” What remains
potential in the many is actual in the artist. Then he in turn offers his work and shares his happiness with
the many.

In his well-known analysis of fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien describes the literary artist as a subcreator who
gives the Secondary World he makes “the inner consistency of reality.” By realizing imagined marvels, he
builds a place that commands active belief, not the mere suspension of disbelief. To visit such a
Secondary World is to find our dreams of loveliness, horror, and whimsy come true. A measure of the
enchantment that refreshes us there may return to the Primary World with us and awakens splendors in
everyday things. Once we have wandered in the forests of Faerie, “a tree is a tree at last” even if it grows
beside a car-clogged city street.