The guests in Poul Anderson's Old Phoenix include shadowy beings:
"...full of small starlike sparkles."
-Poul Anderson, "House Rule" IN Anderson, Fantasy (New York, 1981), pp. 9-20.
I was fairly sure that such beings also belonged in Neil Gaiman's Inn of the Worlds' End but have not been able to find them there. Now I think that Anderson's description was so vivid and visual that I merely imagined that I had seen the shadowy beings in the Worlds' End.
The Sandman mentions that there are other Free Houses. The Old Phoenix must be one of them.
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Kaor, Paul!
One also thinks of the Last Homely House west of the mountains and east of the Sea, where Master Elrond long dwelt in the 2nd and 3rd Ages of Tolkien's Middle Earth mythos. Rivendell shared some of the same functions and purposes as the Old Phoenix.
And I would love to know how Nicholas van Rijn ended up in the Old Phoenix, as we see in "House Rule"!
Ad astra! Sean
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