Kai Lung: Six is a collection of fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 stories by Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah

Ernest Bramah , born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his...

 featuring Kai Lung

Kai Lung

Kai Lung is a fictional character in a series of books by Ernest Bramah, consisting of The Wallet of Kai Lung , Kai Lung's Golden Hours , Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat , The Moon of Much Gladness , Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree , Kai Lung: Six and Kai Lung Raises His...

, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China

China

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. It was first published as a limited edition of 250 copies in hardcover in Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

 by The Non-Profit Press in 1974.

The collection gathers into book form for the first time the final six Kai Lung stories published by the author during his lifetime, all of which originally appeared in the magazine Punch

Punch (magazine)

Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...

. It appeared thirty-four years after the previous Kai Lung collection. It was subsequently superseded by Kai Lung Raises His Voice

Kai Lung Raises His Voice

Kai Lung Raises His voice is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah featuring Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China...

(2010), a more comprehensive collection including both its stories and a number of previously unpublished ones.

The title of the collection reflects the fact that it is both the sixth book in the Kai Lung series and contains six stories. It also includes an introduction by William White.

Contents

• "Introduction" (by William White)
• "The Story of Lam-Hoo and the Reward of Merit"
• "The Story of Chung Pun and the Miraculous Peacocks"
• "The Story of Yeun Yang and the Empty Soo-Shong Chest"
• "The Story of Sing Tsung and the Exponent of Dark Magic"
• "The Story Kwey Chao and the Grateful Song Bird"
• "The Story Li Pao, Lucky Star and the Intruding Stranger"