The Castle of Iron
core novel 1950 The Harold Shea Series
Record
| First published | 1950 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.65 (189 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 190 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780722129296 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Harold Shea Series
- Series: The Harold Shea Series core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: L. Sprague de Camp
- Author: Fletcher Pratt
Notes
- From the series record (The Harold Shea Series): A classic-era pulp portal-fantasy series, originally serialized as five novellas in Unknown and other magazines between 1940 and 1954 and gathered into these three novel-length volumes. Psychologist Harold Shea uses a symbolic-logic method to travel into worlds built from real mythologies and literature (Norse myth, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, the Kalevala, and Irish legend). Both authors are deceased; the sequence was later completed and reprinted in full as an omnibus, The Complete Compleat Enchanter.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Harold Shea Series: position 2 of 3: previous The Incomplete Enchanter (1941) · next Wall of Serpents (1960)
Sources
← The Harold Shea Series dossier · All universes
One of 3732 works in the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.