Top 10 King Arthur Books

Photo credit: “The Accolade” (1901) by Edmund Blair Leighton Ah, Arthurian Literature. Arthurian Literature as a tradition spans well over a millennia, arguably beginning with our earliest surviving literary or oral traditional references of Arthur (Yn Goddodin, Historia Brittonum, and The Mabinogion to name a few) in the 9th century onwards to modern day masterpieces like T.H. White’s The Once and Future King (1958). The genre is full of daring, romance, comedy, and tragedy, and is bigger than the figure […]

Masters of Fantasy: Part IV

I don’t really have any excuses – I’ve simply been giving priority to my own little pleasures. Therefore, I think I should set aside at least one day a week for the blog. I can’t promise anything, but I can try. Given today, I’ll shoot for Saturday.   To business! I believe you can’t have a proper discussion of fantasy in Western culture without bringing up at some point the Matter of Britain, of which King Arthur […]