Paying the Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Other Stories
This collection of Edghill's finest short fantasy works includes: "The Piper at the Gate" where Mary Frances Baynes longs all her life for Real Magic and finally achieves it... at a price; "The Intersection of Anastasia Yeoman and Light" where a midlist SF-writer-turned-successful-editor gets a glimpse of the way her life could have gone; and the story of Ator, Jannifer, Ancel, and the Grail, set in ancient Britain and told by the son that Ator tried to kill as an infant, is told in "Prince of Exiles."
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Piper at the Gate
- The Intersection of Anastasia Yeoman and Light
- The Long Divorce of Steel (as by Eluki bes Shahar)
- Prince of Exiles
- A Gift of Two Gray Horses
- The Sword of the North
- The Maltese Feline
- Killer in the Reign (with India Edghill)
- War of the Roses
- The Fairy Ring
- We Have Met the Enemy (with India Edghill)
- And King Hereafter
- May Eve
- Scandal (as by Eluki bes Shahar)
- Haut-Clare (as by Eluki bes Shahar)
- For I Have Sworn Thee Fair
- Lizzie Fair and the Dragon of Heart's Desire
Rosemary Edghill
Rosemary Edghill (born 1956) is an American writer and editor, who has often used that pseudonym in place of her legal name, Eluki bes Shahar. Her primary genres are science fiction and fantasy, but she began by writing Regency romances.
The publishers of her first novel, the Regency Romance Turkish Delight, suggested that "eluki bes shahar" sounded insufficiently English to attract potential readers, and thus she has published the majority of her novel-length works under the pseudonym. Her sister writes as India Edghill.