Lavondyss

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

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 Hollowing

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

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.

Mythago Wood

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

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

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 Mythago Cycle

The Mythago Cycle
Author: Robert Holdstock
Publisher: Orion
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2007
Genre: Boys
ISBN: 9780575079724

Ryhope Wood: a tract of English woodland in the Herefordshire countryside wherein reside the creatures and configurations of ancient myth, the mythagos. In Ryhope Wood, ancient secrets and memories, both real and imaginery, take on physical form, from the Green Man and the Wild Hunt to Jason and Taliesen: heores made flesh - and yet unpredictable, for they change according to how mankind sees and thinks about them. And those who wander into the shadowed dephths of this ancient, primal woodland will never be the same again: they go in seeking adventure, or love, or family, but what they find in Ryhope Wood defies description and changes them for all time.

English Gothic

English Gothic
Author: Jonathan Rigby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Horror films
ISBN: 9781905287369

The British horror film is almost as old as cinema itself. 'English Gothic' traces the rise and fall of the genre from its 19th century beginnings, encompassing the lost films of the silent era, the Karloff and Lugosi chillers of the 1930s, the lurid Hammer classics, and the explicit shockers of the 1970s.

Celtika

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

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 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

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.

Plants in Science Fiction

Plants in Science Fiction
Author: Katherine E. Bishop
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786835614

This is the first volume of its kind Plants in Science Fiction shows how considerations of plant-life in SF can transform our understanding of institutions and boundaries, erecting – and dismantling – new visions of utopian and dystopian futures. Its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics, and cultural life.