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The "Harold Shea" Stories is a name given to a series of five
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stories by the collaborative team of
L. Sprague de Camp Lyon Sprague de Camp (; November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biog ...
and
Fletcher Pratt Murray Fletcher Pratt (25 April 1897 – 10 June 1956) was an American writer of history, science fiction, and fantasy. He is best known for his works on naval history and the American Civil War and for fiction written with L. Sprague de Camp. ...
and to its later continuation by de Camp alone,
Christopher Stasheff Christopher Stasheff (15 January 1944 – 10 June 2018) was an American science-fiction and fantasy author whose novels include '' The Warlock in Spite of Himself'' (1969) and ''Her Majesty's Wizard'' (1986). He received a bachelor's degree and ...
,
Holly Lisle Holly Lisle (born 1960) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels. She is also known for her work in educating writers, including her e-book ''Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love An ...
,
John Maddox Roberts John Maddox Roberts is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction including the ''SPQR'' series and '' Hannibal's Children''. Personal life John Maddox Roberts was born in Ohio and was raised in Texas, California, a ...
,
Roland J. Green Roland James Green (September 2, 1944 - April 20, 2021) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. He wrote as Roland Green and Roland J. Green; and had 28 books in the Richard Blade series published under the pen name 'Jef ...
, Frieda A. Murray,
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, and
Lawrence Watt-Evans Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer). Biography Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, as ...
. De Camp and Stasheff collectively oversaw the continuations. The series is also known as the "Enchanter" series, the "Incomplete Enchanter" series (after the first collection of stories) or the "Compleat Enchanter" series. In the original five stories, psychologist Harold Shea and his colleagues Reed Chalmers, Walter Bayard, and Vaclav Polacek (Votsy) travel to various parallel worlds where ancient myths or old literature are reality. In the course of their travels, other characters are added to the main cast, notably Belphebe and Florimel, who become the wives of Shea and Chalmers, respectively, and Pete Brodsky, a policeman who is accidentally swept up into the chaos. In the later continuations, the most notable additions to the cast are the recurring villain Malambroso and Voglinda, the young daughter of Shea and Belphebe.


Original series

The protagonists utilize a system of
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to project themselves into the worlds they visit, but it is an inexact science, and they miss their target realities as often as they hit them. For example, in the first story, "
The Roaring Trumpet "The Roaring Trumpet" is a fantasy novella by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. The initial story in their Harold Shea series, it was first published in the May 1940 issue of the fantasy pulp magazine ''Unknown''. It first ...
", Shea intends to visit the world of
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, and instead ends up in
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. Most of the worlds visited have systems of physics different from ours, usually magical, which the heroes devote a considerable amount of effort to learning and applying. Much humor is drawn both from the culture shock of their encounters and from the reality that they usually do not understand the local systems well enough to be able to predict the actual effects of the spells they attempt. Much of the series' attraction stems from the interaction of the psychologists' logical, rationalistic viewpoints with the wildly counterintuitive physics of the worlds they visit. Their attitudes provide something of a deconstructionist look at the basic rationales of these worlds, hitherto unexamined either by their inhabitants or even their original creators. They allow the reader to view these worlds from a fresh viewpoint. The "worlds" so examined include not only the Norse world of "The Roaring Trumpet", but also the worlds of
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's ''
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'' in "The Mathematics of Magic",
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's ''
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'' (with a brief stop in
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's Xanadu from "
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") in "The Castle of Iron", the ''
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'' in "The Wall of Serpents", and, at last, Irish mythology in "The Green Magician". With "The Green Magician" the original collaboration ended, Pratt's early death precluding any additional entries. A final planned story set in the world of
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was never written, nor was a projected response to
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's misuse of their hero in his novella ''The Case of the Friendly Corpse'' (1941). (De Camp would finally address the latter issue in "
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".) Reviewing the 1950 edition of ''The Castle of Iron'', Boucher and McComas described the series as "a high point in the application of sternest intellectual logic to screwball fantasy.".
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characterized the series as "relaced, ribald adventure ... priceless," saying that "no fantasy reader should be without them." In 1977
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described the series as "whole planes above the hackneyed gut-spillers and skull-smashers that pass for
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.""Lupoff's Book Week", ''Algol'' 28, 1977, p. 56.


Second series

De Camp was reluctant to continue the series on his own, feeling that the collaboration with Pratt had a flavor impossible for either of them to duplicate alone. When he finally did revive the series in company with younger authors nearly forty years later, this impression was seemingly borne out; while not without interest, his own solo contributions to the second series exhibit a wryer, more cynical view of the worlds toured, and the protagonists' problematic use of magic is abandoned. His interest appears to have shifted to debunking the less credible aspects of the universes visited, rather than taking these as a given and extrapolating the fantasy worlds' physical or magical laws from them, as in the previous sequence. On the other hand, some of the new authors made efforts to duplicate de Camp and Pratt's original achievement, exploring fresh venues where their heroes once again have to learn the world's fundamental magical rules from the ground up. Holly Lisle ("Knight and the Enemy"), John Maddox Roberts ("Arms and the Enchanter") and Tom Wham ("Harold Sheakespeare") were among the authors who recreated the original formula. The initial impulse for the continuation may have been the successful adaptation of the characters into Tom Wham's authorized
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adventure '' Prospero's Isle'', published by
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in October 1987 (the basis of "Harold Sheakespeare"), to which de Camp had contributed an admiring introduction. This may have encouraged him to wrap up long-unresolved loose ends from the original series, such as the stranding of Walter Bayard in the world of
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, and to resolve the unaddressed complication introduced by
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's "borrowing" of Harold Shea for use in his novel ''The Case of the Friendly Corpse''. Both of these goals he accomplished in ''
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'' (1990 chapbook). When the decision was made to continue the series further, this story was revised slightly to reconcile it with the other new stories, though the fit is somewhat awkward. Once the loose ends are resolved, most of the action in the second sequence involves Shea and Chalmers' quest across several universes to rescue Florimel, who has been kidnapped by the malevolent enchanter Malambroso. After Florimel is finally recovered, a similar effort must be made to recover Shea and Belphebe's daughter Voglinda, likewise seized by the unrepentant Malambroso. A final tale sends Shea and Belephebe on an unrelated adventure precipitated by the foolishness of Shea's colleague Polacek. Milieus encountered in the second series include the worlds of Irish myth and the ''Orlando Furioso'' (again) in "Professor Harold and the Trustees", L. Ron Hubbard's setting from ''The Case of the Friendly Corpse'' and
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in "Sir Harold and the Gnome King", the classical
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epic novel ''
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'' in "Sir Harold and the Monkey King," the romantic fantasies of
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'' (with the unique twist of its being ''Quixote's'' version of reality rather than Cervantes') in "Knight and the Enemy",
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's Graeco-Roman epic the ''
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'' in "Arms and the Enchanter", the old
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'' collection of
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n tales, in "Sir Harold and the Hindu King",
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'' in "Sir Harold of Zodanga", and
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's '' The Tempest'' in "Harold Sheakespeare". There exists one additional contribution to the series; "Return to Xanadu" by
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, which revisits the world of ''
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'' and transfers a minor character appearing therein to that of ''
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'' by the agency of an unnamed magician who appears to be intended to represent
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himself. "Return to Xanadu" was first published in '' The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp'' edited by
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and published by
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in 2005.


Publication

The original publication of the first three Pratt and De Camp collaborations ("Roaring Trumpet", "Mathematics of Magic", and ''The Castle of Iron'') was in '' Unknown Magazine'' during its brief run. The remaining two appeared in ''Beyond Fantasy Magazine'' and ''Fantasy Magazine'' a few years later. ''Sir Harold and the Gnome King'' first appeared in the
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program book in 1990 and as a chapbook the following year. It was later revised and appeared with the remainder of the later continuations in regular trade books.


Yngvi

In the original story a character in a jail comes to the bars every hour on the hour to announce that "
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is a louse!". This phrase has moved into the lexicon and has taken on a life of its own in certain SF-related circles. Who, or what, Yngvi may be is not mentioned in the book, though in
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, Yngvi is another name for the god
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.


Bibliography


Original stories

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The Roaring Trumpet "The Roaring Trumpet" is a fantasy novella by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. The initial story in their Harold Shea series, it was first published in the May 1940 issue of the fantasy pulp magazine ''Unknown''. It first ...
" (May 1940, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt) *"
The Mathematics of Magic "The Mathematics of Magic" is a fantasy novella by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the second story in their Harold Shea series. It was first published in the August 1940 issue of the fantasy pulp magazine ''Unknown''. It ...
" (August 1940, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt) *"
The Castle of Iron ''The Castle of Iron'' is the title of a fantasy novella by American authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, and of the novel into which it was later expanded by the same authors. It was the third story (and afterwards the second volume) i ...
" (April 1941, expanded to novel-length as ''
The Castle of Iron ''The Castle of Iron'' is the title of a fantasy novella by American authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, and of the novel into which it was later expanded by the same authors. It was the third story (and afterwards the second volume) i ...
'', 1950; by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt) *"
The Wall of Serpents ''The Wall of Serpents'' is a fantasy novella by American science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. The fourth story in their Harold Shea series, it was first published in the June 1953 issue of the fantasy pulp ma ...
" (1953, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt) *"
The Green Magician ''The Green Magician'' is a fantasy novella by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. The fifth story in their Harold Shea series, it was first published in the November 1954 issue of the fantasy pulp magazine '' Beyond Fiction' ...
" (1954, byL. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)


Later stories

*"Professor Harold and the Trustees" (1992, by Christopher Stasheff) *"
Sir Harold and the Gnome King ''Sir Harold and the Gnome King'' is a fantasy novella American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of the Harold Shea series he originated in collaboration with Fletcher Pratt and later continued with Christopher Stasheff. It was first published i ...
" (1990, by L. Sprague de Camp) *"Sir Harold and the Monkey King" (1992, by Christopher Stasheff) *"Knight and the Enemy" (1992, by Holly Lisle, from an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff) *"Arms and the Enchanter" (1992, by John Maddox Roberts, from an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff) *"Enchanter Kiev" (1995, by Roland J. Green & Frieda A. Murray) *"Sir Harold and the Hindu King" (1995, by Christopher Stasheff) *"
Sir Harold of Zodanga ''Sir Harold of Zodanga'' is a fantasy novella by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of the Harold Shea series he originated in collaboration with Fletcher Pratt and later continued with Christopher Stasheff. It was first published in pape ...
" (1995, by L. Sprague de Camp) *"Harold Sheakespeare" (1995, by Tom Wham) *"Return to Xanadu" (2005, by Lawrence Watt-Evans)


Collected editions

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The Incomplete Enchanter ''The Incomplete Enchanter'' is a collection of two fantasy novellas by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the first volume in their Harold Shea series. The pieces were originally published in the magazine ''Unknown'' in the i ...
'' (1941) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt), includes: "The Roaring Trumpet" and "The Mathematics of Magic" *''
The Castle of Iron ''The Castle of Iron'' is the title of a fantasy novella by American authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, and of the novel into which it was later expanded by the same authors. It was the third story (and afterwards the second volume) i ...
'' (1950) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt), a novel-length expansion of the original story *'' Wall of Serpents'' (1960) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt), includes: "The Wall of Serpents" and "The Green Magician" *''
The Enchanter Reborn ''The Enchanter Reborn'' is an anthology of five fantasy short stories edited by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff, the first volume in their continuation of the Harold Shea series by de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. It wa ...
'' (1992) (L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff), includes: "Professor Harold and the Trustees," "Sir Harold and the Gnome King," "Sir Harold and the Monkey King," "Knight and the Enemy," and "Arms and the Enchanter" *''
The Exotic Enchanter ''The Exotic Enchanter'' is an anthology of four fantasy short stories edited by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff. ''The Exotic Enchanter'' is the second volume in the continuation of the Harold Shea series by de Camp a ...
'' (1995) (L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff), includes: "Enchanter Kiev," "Sir Harold and the Hindu King," "Sir Harold of Zodanga," and "Harold Sheakespeare" ''
The Incomplete Enchanter ''The Incomplete Enchanter'' is a collection of two fantasy novellas by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the first volume in their Harold Shea series. The pieces were originally published in the magazine ''Unknown'' in the i ...
'' and ''
The Castle of Iron ''The Castle of Iron'' is the title of a fantasy novella by American authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, and of the novel into which it was later expanded by the same authors. It was the third story (and afterwards the second volume) i ...
'' have also been issued together as ''
The Compleat Enchanter ''The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea'' is an omnibus collection of three fantasy stories by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, gathering material previously published in two volumes as ''The Inc ...
'' (1975); '' Wall of Serpents'' has also been issued under the title ''The Enchanter Compleated'' (1980); all three volumes of the original series have also been issued together as '' The Complete Compleat Enchanter'' (1989). The original tales and de Camp's additions from the 1990s were issued together as '' The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt'' (2007).


Gamebooks

*''Prospero's Isle'' (1987, byTom Wham)


References


External links

*
Belated Reviews #22: De Camp, Pratt, and the Enchanter
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