Series
Bedlam Bard / Urban Elves
Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, Ellen Guon, Ashley McConnell, Barb Caffrey, Dave Freer, Diana L. Paxson, Eric Flint, India Edghill, Jenn Saint-John, Michael B. Caffrey, Michael Longcor, Roberta Gellis & Sarah A. Hoyt · 8 novels · 7 novelettes · 6 short stories · 1 anthology · 1990–2011
Bedlam's Bard follows Eric Banyon, a modern folk musician who discovers Underhill, a realm of elves living hidden within contemporary cities, and is drawn into their politics and dangers through his own bardic magic. Originating with Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon's Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, the series grew into a long-running collaboration with several co-authors, set within the same shared urban-elves setting Lackey uses across related series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Bedlam Bard / Urban Elves at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s3
- 2000s18
- 2010s1
Shape
8 novels · 7 novelettes · 6 short stories · 1 anthology
14 authors
reads like:urban fantasyelvesour worldcontemporaryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book12 of 22 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Bedlam Boyzdarkest
- Beyond World's Endbrightest · calmest
- Summoned to Tourneymost intense