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This novella originally appeared in Amazing Stories, May 1985. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Magicats II (1991), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy (1991).

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appaered in Amazing Science Fiction, November 1983. The story is included in the collection The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy (1991).

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1975. The story can also be found in the collections The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy (1975), The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy (1991) and The Avram Davidson Treasury (1998).

This invaluable collection of Avram Davidson's resonant, witty short stories describes some incidents in the career of many-times-Doctor Engelbert Eszterhazy, loyal subject of the Triune Monarchy of Scythia- Pannonia-Transbalkania, located in a nineteenth-century Europe whose political landscape will be, after a little reflection, familiar to most fantasy readers. Enquire with Doctor Eszterhazy into curious matters - the lurley; the old woman who lived with a bear; gingerbread men; dancing goats; and more.

Table of Contents:

• The Fish Unturned: Avram Davidson - (1988) - essay by Gene Wolfe
• Cornet Eszterhazy - (1984) - novella
• The Autogondola Invention - (1983) - novella
• Duke Pasquale's Ring - (1985) - novella
• Writ in Water, or the Gingerbread Man - (1985) - novelette
• The King Across the Mountains - (1986) - novelette
• Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman - (1975) - novelette
• The Crown Jewels of Jerusalem, or The Tell-Tale Head - (1975) - novelette
• The Old Woman Who Lived with a Bear - (1975) - novelette
• The Church of Saint Satan and Pandaemons - (1975) - shortstory
• Milord Sir Smiht, the English Wizard - (1975) - novelette
• The Case of the Mother-in-Law of Pearl - (1975) - novelette
• The Ceaseless Stone - (1975) - shortstory
• The King's Shadow Has No Limits - (1975) - shortstory
• The Inchoation of Eszterhazy - (1988) - essay by Avram Davidson

This short story originally appeared in Weird Tales, Winter 1988/1989. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990), edited by Garnder Dozois, and Dinosaurs II (1995), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection The Other Nineteenth Century (2001).

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared Amazing Stories, November 1984. The story is included in the collection The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy (1991).