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Can't say I've ever heard of it, but if you and @neil-gaiman both recommend it, I'm going to check it out, just downloaded it from Project Gutenberg :)
I am quite surprised the excellent - if not quite bizarre - book “Lud-in-the-Mist” isn’t more known when it comes to “fae stories”.
I picked it out of curiosity from my local library, and was surprised to find out that Neil Gaiman had written a foreword in this edition celebrating this story as one of the finest fantasy stories in the English language, and one of his top ten favorite books.
I was even more surprised to learn that the book was released in the 1920s and that, despite frequently searching and looking for fae-related stories, I had never heard of this book or its author until I found it randomly while looking through the fantasy section of the library, stuck in a little corner on the top shelf, right next to the wall.
And… heck, you learn new things every day: I just discovered, while fact-checking for this post, that “Lud-in-Mist” is currently in the public domain… And has been SINCE THE 1950s!!!!
Why isn’t anybody talking about this book? I don’t know.