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A Cavalcade of Goblins

Alan Garner

First published 1969
Publisher Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Krystyna Turska
Pages viii+227
Price $9.50
ISBN 0809824078

  • 1st US ed.
  • Unknown source for price and contents (page, title, author); Contents confirmed by archive scan 2022-09-23. 2018-09-13: Two listings revised from WorldCat data (OCLC 12872), which provides a list of Contents such as, the first three and one later listings: -- Gobbleknoll (Sioux) -- John Connu Rider / Andrew Salkey -- Vukub-Cakix (adapted from the Popol Vuh, Maya-Kiche mythology) -- The Fort of Rathangan (ancient Irish poetry) / translated by Kuno Meyer If the parenthetical annotations and translation credits are suppressed, these listings match the titles and authors below. Some of the annotations indicate that the works are Poems rather than Shortfictions.
  • For this ISBN as of 2017-04-05: Amazon UK/US shows cover image of this design as "Random House Childrens Books (June 1969)"; Amazon UK only also specifies 1969-06-01.

Searching by ISBN: 0809824078

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Gobbleknoll unknown Short Fiction
3 John Connu Rider Andrew Salkey Poem
4 Vukub Cakix unknown Short Fiction
11 Tops or Bottoms unknown Short Fiction
13 The Voyage of Maelduin unknown Short Fiction
35 The Fort of Rathangan unknown Poem
36 Willow unknown Short Fiction
40 The Term William Carlos Williams Poem
41 Edward Frank and the Friendly Cow unknown Short Fiction
42 Yallery Brown unknown Short Fiction
52 Moowis unknown Short Fiction
55 The Snow Man Wallace Stevens Poem
56 The Lady of the Wood unknown Short Fiction
62 A Voice Speaks from the Well George Pelee Poem
63 Bash Tchelik unknown Short Fiction
76 The Dark Guest Ernest George Moll Poem
78 The Goblin Spider unknown Short Fiction
82 To the Tengu Goblins unknown Short Fiction
83 The Secret Commonwealth Alan Garner Short Fiction
91 The Piper of Shacklow unknown Poem
92 The Adventures of Nera unknown Short Fiction
98 A Letter unknown Short Fiction
100 Halloween unknown Poem
101 Great Head and the Ten Brothers unknown Short Fiction
105 The Trade That No One Knows unknown Short Fiction
115 A Charm Against Witches unknown Poem
116 Tarn Wethelan unknown Poem
126 All in Green Went My Love Riding e. e. cummings Poem
128 Hoichi the Earless unknown Short Fiction
133 Meeting in the Road unknown Poem
134 Ramayana unknown Short Fiction
174 In the Strange Isle Michael Roberts Poem
175 The Smoker unknown Short Fiction
178 The River God (of the River Mimram in Hertfordshire) Stevie Smith Poem
180 Wild Worms and Swooning Shadows Alan Garner Short Fiction
188 Loki unknown Short Fiction
201 Baldur the Bright unknown Short Fiction
209 The Beast Brian Patten Poem
210 Glooskap unknown Short Fiction
213 A Game Fleur Adcock Poem
216 The Green Mist unknown Short Fiction
ix Introduction (A Cavalcade of Goblins) Alan Garner Essay
v Prayer John Day Short Fiction