I really should read this sometime! Who knows whether I'll actively like it -- I don't necessarily like a cast of mostly unpleasant characters -- but I'm always intrigued by pre-Tolkien fantasy novels, and more generally by works that predate the seminal works of genres they're in or adjacent to.

I keep thinking I've already read it, is part of why I haven't. But that's me getting it muddled with The King of Elfland's Daughter, which unhelpfully has faded in my head into vague mistiness and no real detailed recollections of what actually happened in it...