For over half a hundred years, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers with such timeless classics as I Am Star, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come. Now the grand professional returns using a bewitching tale of erotic suspense and enchantment.

The year is 1918. Alex White colored, a young American soldier recently wounded in the fantastic War, involves Gatford to escape his stressed past. The pastoral British village seems an ideal place to heal his wounded body and soul, but the neighboring woods are reported to be haunted by capricious, also malevolent, spirits. He is warned to pun intended, the woods as well as the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he discovers love, risk, and wonders which will forever change his view from the world.

Various other Kingdoms casts a magical spell, as conjured by a truly legendary storyteller.