Knights of Madness - Further Comic Tales of Fan (paperback)

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324 pages

Knights of Madness - Further Comic Tales of Fantasy
Edited by Peter Haining
Orbit 2000

When comedy enters the world of fantasy,
anything can happen. And it usually does.
Whether it's Terry Pratchett creating mayhem on a
Hollywood freeway with a chicken, the Creation
according to Spike Milligan, or Peter S. Beagle running
riot in New York with a werewolf, this brilliant
collection shows comic fantasy in all its chaotic glory.

With further stories from such masters of imagination
as Mervyn Peake, Philip K. Dick, Woody Allen, Ray
Bradbury, Peter Sellers, G.K. Chesterton and many
more, Knights of Madness is a rollercoaster ride from
the absurd to the hilarious and back again.

CONTENTS
1 FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: Stories of the Absurd
  3 Hollywood Chickens by Terry Pratchett
 13 The New Utopia by Jerome K. Jerome
 33 The Angry Street by G.K. Chesterton
 41 The Party at Lady Cusp-Canine's by Mervyn Peake
 52 The Little Man Who Wasn't All There by Robert Bloch
 78 The Year the Glop-Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes by Ray Bradbury
 95 Lila the Werewolf by Peter S. Beagle
125 The War With the Fnools by Philip K. Dick
2 THE MUDDLE AGES: Tales of Heroic Times
147 The Creation According to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
155 Mediaeval Romance by Mark Twain
166 Ethelred the Unready by Ben Travers
173 Dream Damsel by Evan Hunter
187 Three Months in a Balloon by John Kendrick Bangs
196 How I Lost the Second World War by Gene Wolfe
220 Fifi and the Chilean Truffle by Orson Welles
228 The Wastrel by Peter Sellers
3 MALICE IN BLUNDERLAND: Cases of Crime
239 Stirring the Pot by Tom Sharpe
247 The Suicide of Kiaros by L. Frank Baum
264 The Rape of the Sherlock by A.A. Milne
268 The White Rabbit Caper by James Thurber
279 Wot the Eye Don't See by Stan McMurtry
292 The Condemned by Woody Allen
301 The Mulligan Stew by Donald E. Westlake
308 The Dulwich Assassins by David L. Stone

323 Acknowledgements