Barzai the wise has become so knowledgeable that he has gained mastery over all the gods of Earth. What he has not accounted for, however, is the Other Gods.
A Lovecraftian journey into other realms of being, The White Ship is one of the earliest examples of Lovecraft's 'is it real or is it a dream' style of story.
Young Iranon is on a quest to find the land of his youth where is family once ruled, and on the way hopes to spread joy and beauty. Will he ever find peace and belonging, or is he doomed to endless longing?
It was a dark and stormy night when our unnamed narrator and his illiterate Mexican bunkmate Juan Romero begin to hear mysterious drums... what happens next is indescribable!
A very slightly updated version of the traditional Norwegian folk tale from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book from 1889. The Blue Fairy Book was the first of 12 Fairy Books to be written and published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, though Lang is credited as the creator of these books, it is worth noting that almost all of the actual translation and writing of the stories was done by others - most notably his wife, Nora.
This story is classified as ATU 425A in the ATU tale type classification system, which is the “Search for the Lost Husband” type.
