The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 Cover of first edition | |
| Author | Avram Davidson |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Todd Cameron Hamilton |
| Cover artist | George Barr |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Owlswick Press |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | xi, 366 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-913896-28-4 |
| OCLC | 23904652 |
| LC Class | PS3554.A924 A48 1990 |
The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy is a collection of historical mystery fantasy short stories by Avram Davidson featuring his scholarly detective character Doctor Eszterhazy and set in an imaginary European country. It was first published in hardcover by Owlswick Press in January 1991, with an ebook edition issued by Gateway/Orion in August 2013. The book is an expansion of the earlier collection The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy (1975), adding five more stories written later but set earlier;[1] the only Eszterhazy story it left uncollected was 1988's "The Odd Old Bird."
The book contains fourteen novellas, novelettes, and short stories, originally published in various speculative fiction magazines or the earlier Eszterhazy collection. It has an introduction by Gene Wolfe and a concluding essay by the author.
Contents
- "The Fish Unturned: Avram Davidson" [introduction] (Gene Wolfe)
- "Cornet Eszterhazy" (originally titled "Young Doctor Eszterhazy," from Amazing Stories v. 58, no. 4, November 1984)
- "The Autogondola Invention" (originally titled "Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention," from Amazing Science Fiction v. 57, no. 4, November 1983)
- "Duke Pasquale's Ring" (from Amazing Stories v. 59, no. 1, May 1985)
- "Writ in Water, or the Gingerbread Man" (from Amazing Stories v. 59, no. 3, September 1985)
- "The King Across the Mountains" (from Amazing Stories v. 61, no. 2, July 1986)
- "Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, v. 48, no. 2, February 1975)
- "The Crown Jewels of Jerusalem, or The Tell-Tale Head" (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, v. 49, no. 2, August 1975)
- "The Old Woman Who Lived with a Bear" (from The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy, 1975)
- "The Church of Saint Satan and Pandaemons" (from Fantastic, v. 25, no. 1, December 1975)
- "Milord Sir Smiht, the English Wizard" (from The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy, 1975)
- "The Case of the Mother-in-Law of Pearl" (from Fantastic, v. 24, no. 6, October 1975)
- "The Ceaseless Stone" (from New Venture #3, Winter 1975)
- "The King's Shadow Has No Limits" (from Whispers #8, December 1975)
- "The Inchoation of Eszterhazy" [essay] (from Weird Tales v. 50, no. 4, Winter 1988/89) Davidson
