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The Incompleat Enchanter
(From the book "Heroes & Villains
Volume 2")By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor & Contributing writerAn omnibus of Harold
Shea’s Magical Misadventures. Originally published
in “Unknown” Magazine (also known as Unknown Worlds) an
American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from
1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John
W. Campbell, appearing in the May and August issues in
1940 & April 1941 the three classic fantasy stories
by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt also appeared
as a Science Fiction Book Club hardback published by
Doubleday in the USA in 1975 and then reissued in
paperback form by Del Rey Books in the USA, in 1976.Nearly forty years after they were first
published ,Peter was called upon to create the cover for
a Sphere Books edition in the UK in February 1979 and
the picture became such a popular iconic fantasy image
it was used by multiple publishers, notably Games
Workshop on White Dwarf Magazine and on paperbacks in
Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, in Germany as a board
game, on role play gaming cards by Merlin Publishing and
of course, in the Solar Wind anthology published by
Dragon's World and now in the Heroes & Villains
Volume 2
anthology we publish.Odd though it may
seem, we actually had the painting wrongly titled in our
archive database and referred to it by the wrong title
for nearly thirty five years. Even though Peter
created covers for all three books in the series, The
Incompleat Enchanter, A Castle of Iron and The Enchanter
Completed, in the hectic overheated paperback book
market of the late1970s and subsequent accompanying
frenetic studio activity we somehow managed to simplify
the title in our minds and it stuck! It was further concretised as the wrong title
when Peter painted a companion piece for himself which
he titled The Complete Enchantress". . . . . . . . Deborah Susan Jones
