[1][2] 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] 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.

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