The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock

The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock
Author: Donald E. Morse
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786485213

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Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock's early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series.

Mythago Wood

Mythago Wood
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575088451

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Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable ... and stronger than time itself. Stephen Huxley has already lost his father to the mysteries of Ryhope Wood. On his return from the Second World War, he finds his brother, Christopher, is also in thrall to the mysterious wood, wherein lies a realm where mythic archetypes grow flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams, and in promises of freedom lies the sanctuary of insanity ... Readers love Mythago Wood: '6.0 stars. This book is a MASTERPIECE and will likely be on my list of "All Time Favourite" novels before too long' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Blimey, what a book! Genuine classic of mythological fiction.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'An imaginative masterpiece has broken the boundaries of fantasy genre. In Mythagowood Myths manifest from characters's unfathomable desires. The mysterious forest which the protagonists are obsessed with is an original concept of legends, it rooted in subconscious mind arouses overwhelming power of human minds'. Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'To attempt to write a straightforward synopsis of Mythago Wood itself is almost to lose the very essence of the novel, to break away from the ethereal feeling which transcends the book.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I've seldomly read a book that is so rich and enthralling in its descriptions and really draws me into the mythical woods, where time flows differently, where your subconscious can conjure up archetypes and these can infringe upon your very real life outside of the forest.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Avilion

Avilion
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher: Gollancz
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Forests and forestry
ISBN: 9780575083028

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Sequel to Mythago Wood - When Jack's sister Yssobel disappears one winter's night, he senses that she is in great jeopardy - He must make the long journey from deep in the wildwood to the real world to save her.

The Hollowing

The Hollowing
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher: Orb Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2005-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466840315

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A NOVEL IN THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD-WINNING MYTHAGO CYCLE Ryhope Wood, Mythago Wood, is the great forest steeped in mystery, whose heart contains secrets that change all who come there. Alex Bradley is a damaged and visionary child. Little does he know that the distorted creations of his mind are alive inside nearby Ryhope Wood. When the forest claims him, his father goes in pursuit, along with a scientific expedition looking for the secret of "mythago-genesis"... But inside Ryhope, Alex has created a hundred forms of the Trickster-all of them seeking their maker, and all of them deadly. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lavondyss

Lavondyss
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575119047

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At the heart of the wildwood lies a place of mystery and legend, from which few return and none emerged unchanged: Lavondyss . . . the ultimate realm, the source of all myth. When Harry Keeton disappeared into Ryhope Wood, his sister Tallis was just an infant. Now, thirteen years old, she hears him whispering to her from the Otherworld. He is in danger. He needs her help. Using masks, magic and clues left by her grandfather, she finds a way to enter the primitive forest and begin her search. Eventually she comes to Lavondyss itself, a realm both beautiful and deadly, a place in which she is changed forever . . . Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood won the World Fantasy Award and is among the most praised post-war novels of the fantastical. In this haunting sequel, Lavondyss, we are returned to the Wildwood and the mythos that Holdstock has made his own. Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1989.

The Iron Grail

The Iron Grail
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466840323

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"The first is a man who needs you and will use you. He will weaken you dangerously. The second is a man you betrayed, though you believe otherwise. He wishes to kill you and can do so easily. The third is a ship that is more than a ship. She grieves and broods. She will carry you to your grave." These three warnings greet Merlin on his return to Alba, the future England, to the deserted fortress of Taurovinda---the Hill of the White Bull. He is not the only one making the journey: Urtha, High King of the Cornovidi, is coming home to reclaim his stronghold, and Jason is sailing in on the Argo to seek his younger son, hiding somewhere in the kingdom. But Urtha's fortress has been taken by warriors from Ghostland; they claim it as their own. There will be war against the Otherworld. In this sequel to Celtika, Robert Holdstock weaves myth and history into a fabulous tale of honor, death, and magic. At its center, moving along his never-ending path, is Merlin himself, an enchanter in the prime of his life, reckless, curious, powerful, yet a stranger to his own past---a past that is catching up with him. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood

Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood
Author: Paul Kincaid
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2022-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3031103742

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This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level, how it plays with ideas of time as something fluid and disturbing, and how it presents mythology as something crude and dangerous. The book places Mythago Wood in the context of Holdstock’s other works, noting in part how complex ideas of time have been a consistent element in his fiction. The book also briefly examines how the themes laid out in Mythago Wood are carried through into later books in the sequence as well as the Merlin Codex

Celtika

Celtika
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2004-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765349040

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From an award-winning fantasist comes a magical novel that links the Arthurian cycle with the mysteries of ancient Greece as Merlin joins Jason on his search for the Golden Fleece.

The Bone Forest

The Bone Forest
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Wood Wife

The Wood Wife
Author: Terri Windling
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780812549294

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A woman writer moves into a house she inherited from a poet in the hills of Arizona. The man died in mysterious circumstances and Maggie Black wants to find out why. So begins a terrifying introduction to the Indian spirits which roam the hills and feed on people's creative juices.