Bedlam Bards series

## Genre Information

Urban Fantasy
Elves, Vampires

Metapsychics
Myths and Legends

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## About the Series

* **Authors:** Mercedes Lackey, Ellen Guon, Rosemary Edghill
* **Genres:** Urban Fantasy, Myths and Legends, Metapsychics, Low Fantasy
* **Theme:** Part of the Elves on the Road Universe. Low Fantasy, where the humans do not know of the existence of the paranormal or supernatural all around them.
* **Narrative style:**

### Series Description

A young flautist plays the blues on a street corner and awakes an elf from his enchantment, thus begins the adventures of Eric Banner as he discovers that there is more to the world then what he had ever suspected. He and his new friend first fights an evil Elf that is trying to conquer California.

When Eric moves to New York to study at Julliard he discovers more evil dark Elves trying to take over the human world. All while he is studying at Julliard, learning the magic in his music, taking on an apprentice, falling in love and protecting his younger brother from the Unseleighe.

## Books in order

* Publication order, which may not be sequential
	1. Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (Bedlam's Bard series Book 1) (1990)
	2. Summoned to Tourney (Bedlam's Bard series Book 2) (1992)
	3. Bedlam Boyz (Bedlam's Bard series Book 3) (1992)
	4. Beyond World's End (Bedlam's Bard series Book 4) (2001)
	5. Spirits White as Lightning (Bedlam's Bard series Book 5) (2001)
	6. Mad Maudlin (Bedlam's Bard series Book 6) (2003)
	7. Music to My Sorrow (Bedlam's Bard series Book 7) (2003)
	8. Bedlam's Edge (Bedlam's Bard series Book 8) (2005)

The Waters and the Wild by Rosemary Edghill

### Shorts

* *The Red Fiddler (Bedlam's Bards 8.5)* by Eric Flint - The Red Fiddler is a story set in Mercedes Lackey's "Bedlam's Edge" universe.

### Series in the Elves on the Road Universe

These series are only loosly connected, sometimes something is mentioned across the series or belongs to a different series but none are prequels or sequels of the others.

* Diana Tregarde Investigations
	+ plus the Novel - Sacred Ground (1994)
* Scepter'd Isle series - Historical prequel to *The SERRAted Edge series*
* The SERRAted Edge series
* **Bedlam Bards series**

## World Building

### Setting

This universe is set in a warped contemporary world featuring elves and magic where the humans have no idea that Elves and others exist.

### Fantasy Elements

Psychic, elves, werewolves, psychic vampires (suck life force), blood-drinking vampires, witches, Aztec gods, nullity (kills magic), sorcerers, Native American mythology.

## Book Descriptions

Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (Bedlam's Bard series Book 1) (1990)
Eric Banyon, musician, is out playing the blues on his flute one day, but he couldn't have known that the desperate sadness of his music would free a young elven noble from the magical prison he has been languishing in for centuries--nor does he believe it!
Summoned to Tourney (Bedlam's Bard series Book 2) (1992)
With San Francisco doomed to fall off the continent, the bard must summon the Nightflyers, the soul-devouring shadow creatures from the dreaming world.
Bedlam Boyz (Bedlam's Bard series Book 3) (1992)
When one of her friends is gunned down, Kayla uses her latent healing powers to heal her friend—and the gang member who shot him—and soon the city's gangs are eager to use her powers for evil.
Beyond World's End (Bedlam's Bard series Book 4) (2001)
The evil elf-lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe plans to create a drug-enslaved army to break through to the human world and feed on the suffering there. Musician-mage Eric Banyon must somehow stop him.
Spirits White as Lightning (Bedlam's Bard series Book 5) (2001)
Eric Banyon has more to worry about than passing his courses at Julliard. The evil elf lord Aerune, whose love was killed by mortal men, is determined to destroy the human race. Eric's only hope of stopping Aerune is to trap him inside a magical maze, from which there is no escaping.
Mad Maudlin (Bedlam's Bard series Book 6) (2003)
Eric Banyon, better known as Bedlam's Bard, is finally about to graduate from Julliard and enter the Real World and so, with the help of a psychiatrist who specializes in the problems of magicians, he's finally coming to terms with his past. But a spur-of-the-moment trip home to Boston to visit his parents brings him more trouble than even Eric thought possible.
Meanwhile, his Bardic apprentice Hosea has discovered that the young homeless children in New York's shelters have created a bizarre mythology about a demon called Bloody Mary who preys on young children - and somehow Bloody Mary has taken on an independent life and now stalks the streets of the city.
And for some reason, she's after Eric as well.
Music to My Sorrow (Bedlam's Bard series Book 7) (2003)
Eric Banyon, known as Bedlam's Bard, managed to save his young brother Magnus from what seemed to be a killer demon, but now he must rescue Magnus from their tyrannical parents. Eric does not look forward to the custody battle, but his friend Ria heads a high-powered law firm, and in a pinch he can use bardic magic to fudge a DNA test. But Eric doesn't know that his parents are allied with evangelist Billy Fairchild, himself a tool of the evil Unseleighe elves. If Magnus and his friend Ace, who is also on the run from her twisted parents, fall into Fairchild's hands, even Eric's bardic magic may not be enough to save them.
Bedlam's Edge (Bedlam's Bard series Book 8) (2005)
Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre¿where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger creatures walk modern city streets, their presence, and even their existence unsuspected by the human inhabitants. Now these two present a volume of all new urban fantasy, with a stellar lineup of the best new fantasy writers, such as Roberta Gellis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint, Diana Paxton, and more¿including two new stories and an afterword by Mercedes Lackey herself, as well as a story by Rosemary Edghill. This is an indispensable volume for fans of urban fantasy in general, and the thousands of fans of Mercedes Lackey in particular.