I had enjoyed the Last Unicorn so I was excited to get to know Peter S. Beagle from other works. This was so well done and I enjoyed each story. It had what I enjoyed from the Last Unicorn and I could see why he's such a great writer. I'm glad I was able to read this and was excited to read Volume 2.

"Most of her friends agreed with her, but the poet, whose name was David Lorimond, cried out, “No, my lady, you are wrong! Death lives among the poor. Death lives in the foulest, darkest alleys of this city, in some vile, rat-ridden hovel that smells of—” He stopped here, partly because Lady Neville had indicated her displeasure, and partly because he had never been inside such a hut or thought of wondering what it smelled like. “Death lives among the poor,” he went on, “and comes to visit them every day, for he is their only friend.”