''A Fish Dinner in Memison'' is a 1941 fantasy novel by English writer

E. R. Eddison Eric Rücker Eddison, CB, CMG (24 November 1882 – 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison. His best-known works include ''The Worm Ouroboros'' (1922) and the Zimiamv ...

, the second in his

Zimiamvian Trilogy The Zimiamvian Trilogy is a series of fantasy novels by English author E. R. Eddison. #''The Mezentian Gate'' (1958) #'' A Fish Dinner in Memison'' (1941) #''Mistress of Mistresses'' (1935) Some chapters in each of the novels take place on Earth ...

. The story consists of alternating sections set on Earth and in Zimiamvia. The Earth sections focus on the romance of Edward Lessingham and his wife Mary. The Zimiamvian sections describe King Mezentius, described as "tyrant of Fingiswold, Meszria and Rerek", foiling a plot against his Vicar in Rerek, and then the romance of his illegitimate son Barganax with the Lady Fiorinda. The fish dinner of the title turns into a symposium on Eddison's metaphysics. Much is revealed about the connection between principal characters and the separate worlds of the novel, as well as to ''

The Worm Ouroboros ''The Worm Ouroboros'' is a Heroic fantasy, heroic high fantasy novel by English writer E. R. Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland i ...

'' (1922), not fully resolved in the other novels in the trilogy. The character of Lessingham is also resolved to its greatest extent in all the novels of the trilogy. ''A Fish Dinner in Memison'' overlaps chronologically with ''

The Mezentian Gate ''The Mezentian Gate'' is a fantasy novel by English writer E. R. Eddison, the third in his Zimiamvian Trilogy. It is primarily a history of the rule of the fictional King Mezentius (the Tyrant of Fingiswold), and his methods of gaining and hol ...

'', but since the action starts later than in that work, it can be considered chronologically as the second novel in the series.

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* 1941 British novels 1941 fantasy novels British fantasy novels Zimiamvia books E. P. Dutton books {{1940s-fantasy-novel-stub