Over the Hills and Far Away (collection)

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Over the Hills and Far Away
Cover of Over the Hills and Far Away
Author	Lord Dunsany
Cover artist	Gervasio Gallardo
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1974
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	xii, 234 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0345238869

Over the Hills and Far Away is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the sixty-fifth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April, 1974. It was the series' sixth Dunsany volume, and the third collection of his shorter fantasies assembled by Carter.

The book collects a poem, two plays and thirty-four short pieces by the author, including several of his Jorkens stories, with an introduction by Carter. A poem, by H. P. Lovecraft, in tribute to Dunsany is also included.

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• "Happy Far-Off Things", An Introduction by Lin Carter
• "On Reading Lord Dunsany", A Tribute by H. P. Lovecraft (poem)
• I. Tales of the World's Edge

• "Editor's Note"
• "The Journey of the King"
• "The Fall of Babbulkund"
• "The Bird of the Difficult Eye"
• "The Secret of the Sea"
• "The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles" (play)

• II. Tales of the Far Away

• "Editor's Note"
• "The House of the Sphinx"
• "Blagdaross"
• "The Lonely Idol"
• "The Archive of the Older Mysteries"
• "The Loot of Loma"
• "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla"
• "The Queen's Enemies" (play)
• "How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire"
• "The Prayer of Boob Aheera"
• "East and West"
• "How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning"
• "The Man with the Golden Ear-Rings"
• "Poor Old Bill"

• III. Tales of Near At Hand

• "Editor's Note"
• "The Bad Old Woman in Black"
• "The Field"
• "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow"
• "The Little City"
• "The Highwayman"
• "In the Twilight"
• "The Ghosts"
• "The Doom of La Traviata"
• "A Narrow Escape"
• "The Lord of Cities"
• "The Unhappy Body"
• "The Gifts of the Gods"
• "On the Dry Land"
• "The Unpasturable Fields"

• IV. Tales Jorkens Told

• "Editor's Note"
• "The Curse of the Witch"
• "Hunting the Unicorn"
• "The Pale-Green Image"
• "The Sacred City of Krakovlitz"

• "At Sunset" (poem)