The Great Victorian Collection, published in 1975, is a fantasy novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore.
Set in Carmel, California, it tells the story of a man who dreams that the empty parking lot he can see from his hotel window has been transformed by the arrival of a collection of priceless Victoriana on display in a vast open-air market.
When he awakes he finds that he can no longer distinguish the dream from reality.
The book won the 1975 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction[1] and, in Canada in 1975, the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
[2] The American science fiction author and poet Thomas M. Disch included The Great Victorian Collection in his list of "modern classic" fantasy novels.