title: Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II
text: # Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II
  
  Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II is an anthology of fantasy novellas, edited by American writer Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in March, 1973 as the fifty-sixth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It was the ninth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.
  
  ## Summary
  
  The book collects four novellas by as many fantasy authors, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter. It is a companion volume to Carter's earlier Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I (1972).
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
  * "The Woman in the Mirror" (George Macdonald, Phantastes)
  * "The Repairer of Reputations" (Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow)
  * "The Transmutation of Ling" (Ernest Bramah, The Wallet of Kai Lung)
  * "The Lavender Dragon" (Eden Phillpotts, The Lavender Dragon)
  
  ## Reception
  
  Theodore Sturgeon reported the stories "run from great to quaint."
  
  The book was also reviewed by Everett F. Bleiler in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983.
  
  