Twilight Land by Howard Pyle is a collection of haunting fairy tales in which the age-old tales of good and evil are artfully interwoven with a cast of spooky and romantic princes, demons, and sorcerers. Excerpt: "Once upon a time there came a soldier marching along the road, kicking up a little cloud of dust at each step—as strapping and merry and bright-eyed a fellow as you would wish to see in a summer day. Tramp! tramp! tramp! he marched, whistling as he jogged along, though he carried a heavy musket over his shoulder and though the sun shone hot and strong and there was never a tree in sight to give him a bit of shelter…"
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