The Purple Pterodactyls

A collection of short stories.

Contents:

• Balsamo's Mirror
• The Lamp
• Algy
• The Menhir
• Darius
• United Imp
• Tiki
• Far Babylon
• The Yellow Man
• A Sending of Serpents
• The Huns
• The Purple Pterodactyls
• Dead Man's Chest
• The Figurine
• Priapus

Being the adventures of W. Wilson Newbury, mild-mannered – and mildly ensorcelled – gentleman banker. L. Sprague De Camp, winner of the Gandalf Award as a Grand Master of Fantasy, reveals within these pages the curious story of his friendship with W. Willson "Willy" Newbury, for whom the realm of the supernatural seems to have a strange affinity....

A horse discloses its violent – non-equine – past. A manufacturer reveals a particularly unacceptable form of non-union labor. Formaldehyde is shown to be a better preservative than even its inventor would have hoped. A game of chance takes on serious overtones, and all for a most unlikely prize...