Note: Two collections of linked stories, according to Clute. (quote) In both volumes the eponymous Puck figure solves Riddles and tells fantasy tales – including the famous "Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep" – to either the six original girls involved in complex folkloristic games with Martin or (in the second volume) their six children. As his name implies, Martin Pippin is not only a Trickster but an analogue of the Green Man, and in that guise is a spirit of vegetation; despite superficial resemblances, therefore, he is most unlike Peter Pan. Other volumes similarly – though never with quite the intensity – present various tales through frame stories narrated by Liminal Beings". (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by John Clute