suicide in 1937. The painting is now in the Tate Britain collection. In other works The Queen song "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" from the album Queen II was born of Freddie Mercury's appreciation of the work; it makes direct reference to the painting's characters as detailed in Dadd's poem. Terry Pratchett's novel The Wee Free Men contains a scene inspired by the painting. The painting, the art of the insane, and Dadd are mentioned in the novel, Mortal Love, by Elizabeth Hand. The work is a central plot element in the novel The Witches of Chiswick by Robert Rankin. Neil Gaiman wrote a tribute to the painting for the July/August edition of Intelligent Life magazine. The painting appears in Alex Bledsoe's Tufa novels. Former Gorky's Zygotic Mynci singer Euros Childs included an instrumental song titled "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" on his 2009 solo album, Son of Euro Child. Mark Chadbourn's "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke", about a contemporary young man looking for meanings in the painting, won the British Fantasy Award for best short story in 2003. Octavio Paz devoted a chapter on Richard Dadd and this painting in particular in his book The Monkey Grammarian. The Throbs album The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds cover art has fragments of the painting (Geffen Records, 1991). The penultimate issue of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics is titled after the painting and includes a sequence featuring the life of Dadd, who is depicted as being trapped in the painting following his death. The song “Dancing in the Temple”, by Swedish heavy metal band Candlemass is "inspired by Richard Dadd’s fantastic painting “The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke” that [the band's bassist] Leif [Edling] saw at [the] Tate Gallery. Mr Edling and Freddie Mercury…what a pair!" References Bibliography Allderidge, Patricia (1974). Richard Dadd. New York and London: St. Martin's Press/Academy Editions. MacGregor, John (1989). The Discovery of the Art of the Insane. Princeton University Press. Winkfield, Trevor (2014). Georges Braque and Others: The Selected Art Writings of Trevor Winkfield (1990–2009). New York: Song Cave. . External links Google Art Project: The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke Tate online: Sigmar Polke on Richard Dadd Tate online: Richard Dadd Excerpts of the poem in the context of Shakespeare from the English Department of Emory University s:Elimination of a picture and its subject - called the feller's master stroke printed text 1864 paintings Collection of the