Puck in popular culture He helps them solve most of their cases, and lives with them in their house. Puck plays a central role in Mark Chadbourn's fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of the Serpent, comprising the novels "Jack of Ravens", "The Burning Man", and "Destroyer of Worlds". Puck manipulates the heroes in an epic battle between good and evil over two thousand years of human history. The children's theater play "Robin Goodfellow" by Aurand Harris is a retelling of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from Puck's point of view. In Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy manga Berserk, Puck is one of the main character's earliest companions. He
Puck of Pook's Hill people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. (Puck, who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England", is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream".) The genres of particular stories range from authentic historical novella (A Centurion of the Thirtieth, On the Great Wall) to children's fantasy (Dymchurch Flit). Each story is bracketed by a poem which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story. Donald Mackenzie, who wrote the introduction for the Oxford World's Classics edition of "Puck of