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Chivalry is the sweet and amusing story of an elderly British widow who buys the Holy Grail in a thrift shop, causing an Arthurian knight to repeatedly show up at her house with ancient relics in hope of trading them for the cup and end his noble quest... but it looks so nice on the mantle!

This tale is charming, and rather special to me. It was included as the first story in the Smoke and Mirrors collection, so it was the very first Neil Gaiman short story I ever read. It's been almost a decade since I picked that book up, but I'm prepared to say that Colleen Doran's illustrations elevates Chivalry even further: She took pains to make it look as much like an illustrated manuscript as possible—this isn't your standard graphic novel adaptation. Many scenes have no dialogue, and the art manages to capture all the unspoken nuances, and the muted watercolors perfectly fit the story's mood. It's truly a stunning piece of work in which you can see how the artist's love for the source material poured onto their pages—easily my favorite Gaiman and Doran collaboration to date, with some interesting insight into her sources and inspirations included in an afterword.

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Note: I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.