This will be a difficult and probably very annoying book for some. It is fascinated by the extradimensional spaces between and beyond, psychic residues and psychic attacks, the natural world's transcendent qualities, the Lessons of the Ancients, the right-hand path and the left. That blood is not interested in classical ghost stories it doesn't particularly want to scare you, except perhaps on an existential level.
The old Weird Fiction Masters blood runs through Walton's veins: some Arthur Machen, a little bit of Lord Dunsany, and a lot of Algernon Blackwood.
When is a haunted house story not a haunted house story? When it is a Weird Fiction™ haunted house story, of course. Evangeline Walton’s triumph is to have constructed a vital and living world on the foundations of myth.Synopsis: a little girl is haunted but is she really? The gods and goddesses, wizards and sorceresses, the mortal men and women of ancient days come brilliantly to life. Evangeline Walton’s Mabinogian Tetralogy is a powerful work of the imagination, to rank with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and T. In The Island of the Mighty, the throne of the kingdom of Gwynedd is in peril when Gwydion, the headstrong heir, dares to provoke the legendary wrath of Lord Pryderi. In The Song of Rhiannon, the struggle continues with Manawyddan and his son Pryderi, the rightful heir to the throne, battling the force of an ancient curse. The Children of Llyr chronicles the great family of Bran the Blessed, and their epic struggle for the throne. Young Prince Pwyll meets Arawn, the God of Death, and survives the encounter with a heavy charge: to take on Arawn’s guise and kill for him the one man even Death could not fell.
In The Prince of Annwn, the seeds of future tragedy are planted. In the masterful hands of Evangeline Walton the twelve ‘branches’ of the ancient text were reworked into four compelling narratives: The Prince of Annwn, The Children of Llyr, The Song of Rhiannon, and The Island of the Mighty, resulting in one of the great epic fantasy works of literature. The author of the classic Mabinogian, the great compendium of medieval Welsh mythology, is unknown to us, but generations have thrilled to the magical tales set at a time when men and gods mingled, and the gods had more than met their match, tales of the wizard prince Gwydion, of Prince Pwyll and Lord Death, and of the beautiful Rhiannon and the steadfast Branwen.
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