Books like The Gryphon King

This is just TOO much fun. Another author writing in the 80's who would be much more popular today now that urban supernatural fantasy has taken over the market. A group of eccentric college students including a Shakespearean actress, an aspiring fantasy/sci fi novel-cover artist, an Irish musician, a Cajun hoodoo-practicing African-American beauty, a down-to-earth geologist who is in the SCA (the medieval recreationists), and the main character Black Jay who studies Old Norse and fairy tales and wears only black, are living, goofing off, and taking graduate degrees in Athens Georgia, an offbeat and alternative sort of town that was weird enough already. Then a sword and a previously undiscovered medieval play arrive from England in a library donation shipment, one possessed by an evil elf lord in rebellion from his kind, and one by the ghost of the human man who once cut off his head on orders from the Elvenking. The closer the undead elf mage gets to resurrecting his stolen piece of Elfland, the more it begins to take over Georgia! And the main character, his girlfriend, and his hateful half brother who wants his girlfriend all get possessed by the players in the original tragedy. Fabulous fun, from the Old Norse professor who believes in brownies, a RenFaire, the fear of finding out someone has stolen your thesis idea, to combat with gryphons in a shifting faery labyrinth and the crazy parties and pot smoking in the town that produced REM and the B-52's.