The fourth book of Jorkens

the long version

The delightful tall tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens are so widely-known and so much appreciated by the audience for whom they are clearly meant that any introduction to a new collection of them is superfluous. Sometimes grim, sometimes comic, sometimes macabre, often whimsical and utterly strange, always incredible, the travel tales of Mr. Jorkens have a quality of enduring charm which has endeared them to thousands of readers. Here are tales of science-fiction in the outre' concepts and inventions of Dr. Caber—Making Fine Weather, The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber, and others; of the frankly supernatural—The Haunting of Halanhanstonun, Jorkens in Witch Wood, Mgamu; tales of the principle of evil, like A Deal with the Devil; and there are tales which defy classification. This fourth collection of Jorkens' tales is fully up to its predecessors. British reviewers have been understandably enthusiastic. Writing in the Irish Times, Temple Lane says: "It is long since I have been able to lose myself so completely in a book. No single formula will fit all Lord Dunsany's persuasive fantasies." And others agree: "Lord Dunsany gives us, as one would expect, examples of the rarer kind of short stories—good stories delicately written and shaped, and with a twist that knots them into piquant forms."—The Schoolmaster. "Full of charm and atmosphere; fancy runs riot. Lord Dunsany has a neat, elusive trick of style."—The Illustrated London Nevis. Arkham House is proud to present the fourth collection of travel tales by that amiable raconteur, Mr. Joseph Jorkens, from the pen of his distinguished creator, Lord Dunsany.