The Hero’s Journey: The one story underneath them all

The monomyth in action — the call, the threshold, the trials, the return — across the epics and quests that share a single ancient shape.

In this collection

• Photographer Crane
• The Little Colonel's Hero
• My Broncho
• The Twelve Brothers
• In a Thirsty Land
• To Each His Star
• David's Little Lad
• The Dong with a Luminous Nose
• In Care of the Captain
• Mr. Aristocrat
• The Wond'Rous Wise Man
• The Ballad of the White Lady
• Sam Joplin's Epigastric Nerve
• Before Winter
• The Beetle
• Grots and Groves
• The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
• A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
• All collections