Editing Harold Shea (section)

{{Short description|Protagonist of the "Enchanter" series}}
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| name             = Harold Shea Stories/Enchanter series
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| image            = The Roaring Trumpet.png
| image_caption    = "The Roaring Trumpet" in ''[[Unknown (magazine)|Unknown]]'', May 1940
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*"''[[The Roaring Trumpet]]''" (1940)
*"''[[The Mathematics of Magic]]''" (1940)
*"''[[The Castle of Iron]]''" (1941, 1950)
*"''[[The Wall of Serpents]]''" (1953)
*"''[[The Green Magician]]''" (1954)
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*"''Professor Harold and the Trustees''" (1992)
*"''[[Sir Harold and the Gnome King]]''" (1990)
*"''Sir Harold and the Monkey King''" (1992)
*"''Knight and the Enemy''" (1992)
*"''Arms and the Enchanter''" (1992)
*"''Enchanter Kiev''" (1995)
*"''Sir Harold and the Hindu King''" (1995)
*"''[[Sir Harold of Zodanga]]''" (1995)
*"''Harold Sheakespeare''" (1995)<!-- not a typo, it's a pun on "Shea" and "Shakespeare"-->
*"''Return to Xanadu''" (2005)
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| author           = [[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Fletcher Pratt]], various
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| country          = USA
| language         = English
| genre            = [[Science fantasy]]
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| pub_date         = 1940–1954, 1990–2005
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| number_of_books  = 5 (original series), 10 (later series)
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'''Harold Shea''' is the protagonist of five [[science fantasy]] stories by the collaborative team of [[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Fletcher Pratt]], as well as later stories by de Camp alone, [[Christopher Stasheff]], [[Holly Lisle]], [[John Maddox Roberts]], [[Roland J. Green]], [[Frieda A. Murray]], [[Tom Wham]], and [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]]. De Camp and Stasheff collectively oversaw the continuations. The series is also known as the "'''Enchanter'''" series, the "'''Incomplete Enchanter'''" series (after the first collection of stories) or the "'''Compleat Enchanter'''" series.

In the original five stories, psychologist Harold Shea and his colleagues Reed Chalmers, Walter Bayard, and Vaclav Polacek (Votsy) travel to various [[Parallel universe (fiction)|parallel worlds]] where ancient myths or old literature are reality. In the course of their travels, other characters are added to the main cast, notably Belphebe and Florimel, who become the wives of Shea and Chalmers, respectively, and Pete Brodsky, a policeman who is accidentally swept up into  the chaos. In the later continuations, the most notable additions to the cast are the recurring villain Malambroso and Voglinda, the young daughter of Shea and Belphebe.