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Book III: The Land of Summer's Twilight is the third issue in the limited series The Books of Magic.

Summary[]

Dr. Occult takes Timothy Hunter to the plane of Fairies, teaching him the many rules a mortal has to follow in that world, the main of which is to never stray from the path, wherever it leads. The Doctor takes the form of his female alter-ego, Rose Psychic, and they arrive at the fairy market, where a local trickster Snout tries to set them up as thieves. The attempt is thwarted by the owl Yo-Yo, after which lord Glory, the warden of the market, rules that they are allowed to take three items from Snout's barrow. The party chooses a mirror, an egg, and a chain.

After crossing a river of blood and defeating a giant in a game of riddles with the help of the mirror, they arrive beneath the hill, where a king (who is simultaneously Arthur and all other great kings of the past) sleeps until the promised day. Losing Dr Occult in the darkness, Timothy continues on his own, and soon he's tricked by Baba Yaga into leaving the path. Yo-Yo comes to his rescue, hobbling Yaga's hut with the magic chain and allowing Timothy to escape and reunite with Rose. She fends Baba Yaga off, threatening to reveal her true name to all the creatures in the forest.

Further along the path they encounter queen Titania, who invites them to her palace, where Hamnet can be seen serving her wine. While in the palace, Timothy is shown different planes beyond various doors: Skartaris, Myrra, Pytharia, Gemworld, Hell, and other fantasy lands, culminating with The Dreaming, where they are greeted by Cain, Abel and Morpheus.

However, Titania tricks Timothy into catching a silver key that unlocks worlds, and by the rules he must stay in the land of Fairies unless he offers a gift of equal value. He offers Titania the egg which turns out to be "a mundane egg" from which a world would once hatch, and this allows them to safely return to the material plane.

Appearances[]

Featured Characters[]

Supporting Characters[]

Antagonists[]

  • Baba Yaga
  • Maugys the Giant
  • Snout
  • Queen Titania
    • The Unseelie Court

Other Characters[]

Objects[]

  • Excalibur (Mentioned)
  • Drum Unescapable (Mentioned)
  • Heliotrope Gamahaean Union (Mentioned)
  • Mundane Egg
  • Snout's Bracelet
  • Snout's Mirror
  • Sword of Night
  • The Silver Key to Worlds
  • Totoro Dolls
  • Warlord's Sword

Locations[]

  • The Dreaming
  • The Far Realms
    • Faerie
      • Avalon
        • Tomb of King Arthur
      • Baba Yaga's Hut
      • The Market
      • Sea of Blood
      • Titania's Palace
      • The Wooden Gate
    • Gemworld
    • Myrra
      • Pytharia
    • Hell
  • Earth
    • England
      • Sussex
    • Skartaris
      • Shamballah
    • Germany (Mentioned)
    • Scotland
    • United States of America
      • New York City
        • Bewitched (Mentioned)
  • The Mansions of Madness (Mentioned)


ISSUES
The Books of Magic (Vol. 1)
The Invisible LabyrinthThe Shadow WorldThe Land of Summer's TwilightThe Road to Nowhere
The Books of Magic (Vol. 2)
Bindings Binding: Book 1, Tearing DownBindings: Book 2, A Book of LeavesBindings: Book 3, Closing CirclesBindings: Epilogue, Lost Causes
Summonings The Hidden SchoolSacrifices: Part I, InstrumentsSacrifices: Part II, VictimsSacrifices: Part III, AltarsThe Artificial Heart: Book 1, Handmedowns Of The Ragged SchoolThe Artificial Heart: Book 2, Bleak Houses, Hard TimesThe Artificial Boy: Book 3, The Climbing BoySmall Glass Worlds Part One: Missing ColorsSmall Glass Worlds Part 2: Transparent Lies
Reckonings What Fire Leaves UsPlaygrounds Part One: Hell And BackPlaygrounds Part Two: Tag... You're ItPlaygrounds Part Three: Deformative YearsPlaygrounds Part Four: Boys Will Be BoysPlaygrounds Part Five: Really-PretendPlaygrounds Epilogue: The Knight, The Dragon, & The Maiden
Transformations Heavy PettingNeedlepointRed Rover, Red RoverAnd Sure In Language Strange She SaidUsed To Bes
The Girl in the Box Rites Of Passage: Prologue, Into Thin AirRites Of Passage Part One, Down With ThatRites Of Passage Part Two, This Is Not About ChocolateRites Of Passage Part Three, Singing In The DryRites Of Passage Part Four, ShellsRites Of Passage Part Five, I'll Hold Your BreathRites Of Passage Part Six, Drowning In Place
The Burning Girl Purgatory Creek Population: 1Dark As Day, My Lady, Bright As NightRites of Passage Part 8: Fire & Sugar & SpiceRites of Passage Part NINE: AppearancesRites Of Passage Part 10, Reasons To Be StoneLocked InRites of Passage Conclusion, A World Of OneSolitaireThe MotherlessNothing Up My Sleeve
Death After Death The BridgeKing of ThisSlave of Heavens Prologue, The EndSlave of Heavens Part 1, The VeilThe ScaleNear Life ExperienceSlave of Heavens Part 4, Inconvenience Be Not ProudSlave of Heavens Conclusion, When All Else FailsThe Box
Book Eight A Thousand Worlds of TimHomecomingBardsey BoysThe Exquisite CorpseA Fully Articulated KnowingThe Last Molly StoryThe Wager/Sturm and the SilverWilliam's Tale Part 1/Auberon Finds a FriendWilliam's Tale Part 2/The Kelpie's LoveIn Defense of his CountryAll Things TimothyWrong Side of the Tracks/The Scrying PoolThe Good FellaThe Heart of the StormThe ArrangementA Day, a Night & a Dream - Part OneA Day, a Night & a Dream - Part TwoPentimentoCauldrons & KettlesAshes TimeThe HunterThe Lord of The HuntThe Closing Part One - Chasing BarbatosThe Closing Part Two - Being Mr. WrongThe Closing Part Three - Inner Child
Sandman Universe: Books of Magic
Moveable Type What's Past is PrologueUnreliable NarratorsIn MemoriamLibrary FinesA Twist in the NarrativeThe End of Chapter One
Second Quarto Over the River and Through the WorldsOut of This Wood Do Not Desire to GoStorytimeEverything's FineNo Take BacksGreat ExpectationsA Blast from the Past
Dwelling In Possibility Bad InfluencesFoul CopyNeedful Books and Winter DreamsAlways Winter and Never...An Awakening
Field of Dreams, Part OneField of Dreams, Part TwoDwelling in Possibility, Part OneDwelling in Possibility, Part TwoDwelling in Possibility, Finale
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Core SeriesSpin-offs by Neil GaimanThe Sandman Presents & Other storiesSandman Universe
Spin-offs by Neil Gaiman
Overture Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3
Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters Chapters 1 & 2Chapter 3 & 4
Chapter 5 & 6Conclusion
One-shots Sandman Midnight TheatreEndless Nights
Short stories Death: A Winter's TaleFear of FallingHow They Met ThemselvesThe CastleThe Flowers of RomanceThe Wheel
Death: The High Cost of Living The Spirit of the StairwayA Night to RememberThe High Cost of Living
Death: The Time of Your Life Things You Just Do When You're BoredImaginary SolutionsThe Time of Your Life
The Books of Magic The Invisible LabyrinthThe Shadow WorldThe Land of Summer's TwilightThe Road to Nowhere
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