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. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.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. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Kent State University Press, 1983 (pp. ^ Robert Weinberg "Science Fiction Specialty Publishers" in Science Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural and Weird Tales (Haworth Press, 1983), p.^ 3,000 according to Witch House, by Evangeline Walton, Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945, p.imaginative writing, a good climax, but a prolonged, dull first section and characterizations that do not click." The Encyclopedia of Fantasy found it to be "an atmospheric Haunted-Dwelling tale". Bleiler described the novel as a "Neo-Gothic thriller. Īccording to Robert Weinberg, the volume was Arkham House's greatest flop - an excellent novel that took nearly two decades to go out of print. In 2013, Centipede Press issued the first American edition of this revised version, also including previously unpublished writings by Walton and several of her short stories. An expanded version, with a newly written 20,000-word prologue, was published in England in 1950. It was the first full-length novel to be published by Arkham House and was listed as the initial book in the Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror. It was published in 1945 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,000 copies. Witch House is a fantasy novel by American writer Evangeline Walton.
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