Old Tales Retold: Sprites and Goblins
I've finally published the first volume of Old Tales Retold. (Volume II, Here Be Dragons, should follow in 2017.) It didn't seem the right kind of book for annotations, so I decided to put them in this blog instead. I set myself a few rules in selecting and adapting these stories. I made sure to choose them from a wide variety of cultures, to avoid stories already well known to the average English speaking reader, and to get a reasonable balance of male and female protagonist
Reviews: Melusine's Gift and Ogier's Prayer, by Tyler R. Tichelaar
In the second and third books of his Children of Arthur series (following on from Arthur's Legacy, reviewed here), Tyler Tichelaar turns his attention from the Matter of Britain to that of France, and to the related legend of Melusine, the fairy ancestor of the House of Lusignan. Here he draws on modern pseudo-histories that have made Melusine the grandmother of Count Roland, the greatest of Charlemagne's paladins: this connection, as Tichelaar freely acknowledges, has no dis
