A Midsummer's Nightmare (1996) is a novel by Garry Kilworth. It is a comical parody of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and is internally illustrated by Stephen Player. Oberon, King of the Fairies, decides to relocate his people from Sherwood Forest, increasingly littered by tourists and drained of magic, to the less-spoiled New Forest. Aided by young car mechanic Sid whom the fairies have captured, they set off in an old bus that Sid teaches Queen Titania to drive, and have various encounters with humans on the way. At a village fête, Titania falls in love with and abducts a human baby (a humorous contrast to A Midsummer Night's Dream where she falls in love with a half-man/half-donkey) whose disappearance attracts pursuit, and the fairy band joins up with a convoy of Ston
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