Tag Archives: Arthurian legend

Mike Ashley, editor’s, The Merlin Chronicles

Posted on 17th June 2024 by Cat Eldridge

A storm is coming, but the winds are still, And in the wild woods of Broceliande, Before an oak, so hollow and old It look’d a tower of ivied masonwork, At Merlin’s feet the wily Vivien lay… Tennyson’s “Idylls of … Continue reading →

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Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment

Posted on 17th June 2024 by Diverse Voices

Rebecca Swain wrote this review. “Not by appointment do we meet delight,” poet Gerald Massey said, and I have found this to be true. I met one of the greatest delights of my life while browsing in my high school … Continue reading →

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Nicola Griffith’s Spear

Posted on 17th July 2022 by Warner Holme

Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a brilliant fusion of a number of old legends and ideas, queer yet period appropriate. It features elements of multiple eras of Arthurian lore as well as certain Irish legends. The combined story follows a familiar … Continue reading →

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J. Robert King’s Mad Merlin

Posted on 13th January 2022 by Diverse Voices

Rebecca Swain wrote this review. Fantasy writers have never forgiven the Christian god for supplanting all the pagan gods that came before him. To hear them tell it, the pagan gods weren’t too pleased about it, either. In J. Robert … Continue reading →

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