The Collected Jorkens, Volume Two

Infobox Book
name = The Collected Jorkens, Volume Two
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image_caption =
author = Lord Dunsany
illustrator =
cover_artist = from work by Sidney Sime
country = U.S.
language = English
series = Jorkens
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genre = fantasy short stories
publisher = Night Shade Books
release_date = 2004
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xxii + 375
isbn = (971-)1-892389-56-8
preceded_by = The Collected Jorkens, Volume One
followed_by = The Collected Jorkens, Volume Three

"The Collected Jorkens, Volume Two" is an omnibus collection of fantasy short stories by author Lord Dunsany. It was first published in 2004 by Night Shade Books, by arrangement with the Dunsany Literary Estate. The omnibus gathers the third and fourth books of Dunsany's Jorkens tales, with two previously uncollected pieces. These books, Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey and The Fourth Book of Jorkens were originally published in 1940 and 1947 respectively (the latter's 1948 USA edition from Arkham House was for many years the only Jorkens volume widely available).

The stories are "recorded" by an unnamed narrator, having been "overheard" being told by Mr. Joseph Jorkens in a London club.

The omnibus volume contains a range of front matter and sixty one stories.

* "Brief Foreword to the Collected Edition of Jorkens" (by the 20th Baron Dunsany)
* "Preface" by T.E.D. Klein
* "Introduction" by S.T. Joshi
* "Bibliographical Note"
* "Preface to Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey"
* "Jorkens' Revenge"
* "Jorkens Retires from Business"
* "Jorkens Handles a Big Property"
* "The Invention of Dr. Caber"
* "The Grecian Singer"
* "The Jorkens Family Emeralds"
* "A Fishing Story"
* "Jorkens in High Finance"
* "The Sign"
* "The Angelic Shepherd"
* "The Neapolitan Ice"
* "The Development of the Rillswood Estate"
* "The Fancy Man"
* "The Lion and the Unicorn"
* "A Doubtful Story"
* "Jorkens Looks Forward"
* "Jorkens Among the Ghosts"
* "Elephant Shooting"
* "African Magic"
* "Jorkens Consults a Prophet"
* "A Matter of Business"
* "The Invention of the Age"
* "The Sultan, the Monkey and the Banana"
* "Pundleton's Audience"
* "The Fight in the Drawing-Room"
* "The Ivory Poacher"
* "Making Fine Weather"
* "Mgamu"
* "The Haunting of Jalahanstown"
* "The Pale-Green Image"
* "Jorkens Leaves Prison"
* "The Warning"
* "The Sacred City of Krakovlitz"
* "Jorkens Practices Medicine and Magic"
* "Jarton's Disease"
* "On the Other Side of the Sun"
* "The Rebuff"
* "Jorkens' Ride"
* "The Secret of the Sphinx"
* "The Khamseen"
* "The Expulsion"
* "The Welcome"
* "By Command of Pharaoh"
* "A Cricket Problem"
* "A Life's Work"
* "The Ingratiating Smile"
* "The Last Bull"
* "The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber"
* "A Deal with the Devil"
* "Strategy at the Billiards Club"
* "Jorkens in Witch Wood"
* "Lost"
* "The English Magnifico"
* "The Cleverness of Dr. Caber"
* "Fairy Gold"
* "A Royal Dinner"
* "A Fight With Knives"
* "Out West"
* "In a Dim Room"
* "After Many a Summer" [A long short story, not believed to have been previously published.]
* "Jorkens' Problem" [Previously published in a chess magazine, and noted in the front matter as having been left out of the Jorkens collections deliberately by Lord Dunsany, who felt it might not be so good a read for a non-chess audience.]

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