Reign of King Oberon

Before Disney, before Tolkien, there was the old fairy kingdom of Oberon and Titania, and the tales told of their courts in the misty moors and ancient forests of Britain and beyond. Walter Jerrold gathers the scattered lore of these diminutive monarchs from manuscripts, oral tradition, and travelers' accounts, weaving together stories of noble sprites and malicious trolls,helpful brownies and mischievous pixies,wise gnomes and dangerous kobolds. Here Robin Goodfellow leads wanderers astray with will-o'-the-wisps, while deeper in the wilds, the Fair Folk hold their own courts, strike their own bargains, and exact their own terrible vengeance. The result is not a single story but a portrait of an entire invisible world that once lived alongside human settlements, in the crevices and margins where the ordinary bled into the magical. For readers who have ever paused at the edge of a forest and wondered what moved in the shadows, this collection offers the answer: a civilization as old as memory itself, as strange as dreams, and far more dangerous than anyone remembers.