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Collecting together the critically acclaimed The Book of Ballads and Sagas series by the legendary fantasy artist Charles Vess. The award-winning compendium of English, Irish and Scottish fairy tales and folklore returns to print in a sumptuous new collection featuring stories written by multi-award winning author Neil Gaiman ('Sandman', 'Coraline', and 'Stardust'), Eisner and Harvey Award-winning cartoonish Jeff Smith ('Bone'), Aurora award-winning author Charles De Lint, New York Times Bestseller Sharyn McCrumb, Elaine Lee ('Starstruck') and acclaimed children's writer Jane Yolen. This new collection also includes, for the first time since its original publication, back in 1995, Vess' unfinished epic saga 'Skade', and includes an additional 10 pages of artwork that have never been seen before.… (more)
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* The False Knight on the Road
* King Henry
* Thomas the Rhymer
* Barbara Allen
* The Three Lovers
* Tam-Lin
* The Daemon Lover
* Twa Corbies
* Sovay
* The Galtee Farmer
* Alison Gross
* The Black Fox
* The Great Selchie of Sule Skerry
The book also contains a foreword in the form of a twelve page essay by Terri Wildling on the history of collecting British ballads and folk songs, the Norse mythology-based comic "Skade" and the scripts for its unfinished chapters, and the fantasy horror comic "Scarecrow".