Previous SFF Author: David Walton
(1907-1996)
Evangeline Walton was the pseudonym of Evangeline Wilna Ensley, an American author. She was given the World Fantasy Lifetime Acheivement Award in 1989.
Prince of Annwn by Evangeline Walton
Evangeline Walton first wrote the MABINOGION TETRALOGY in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Only the fourth book in the sequence was published at the time, under the title The Virgin and the Swine. The series was rediscovered in the early 1970s; The Virgin and the Swine was reprinted as The Island of the Mighty, and the other three books saw publication for the first time. Prince of Annwn is the first in the sequence but was the last to be published.
Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4.5 | Evangeline Walton | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Song of Rhiannon by Evangeline Walton
The Song of Rhiannon (1972), the third volume in Evangeline Walton’s MABINOGION TETRALOGY, begins with Manawyddan, son of the sea god, haunted by grief and feeling directionless after the events of The Children of Llyr. (I haven’t read The Children of Llyr, but I have read “Branwen Daughter of Llyr,” the medieval Welsh tale on which it is based. It features a Red Wedding’s worth of deaths.) His friend Pryderi,
Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3.5 | Evangeline Walton | Mythopoeic Award | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Witch House by Evangeline Walton
Ever since British author Horace Walpole kick-started the haunted house genre with his seminal short novel of Gothic romance, The Castle of Otranto (1765), there have been hundreds of short stories and dozens of novels centered on this most shuddery of literary subjects. But for this reader, the two novels at the very top of the ectoplasmic heap have long been Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959), still the most spine-tingling book that I have ever read,
Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Evangeline Walton | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 11 comments |
She Walks in Darkness by Evangeline Walton
Many of us who have read Evangeline Walton have her, mentally, on our epic fantasy bookshelf with people like J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, for her retellings of the Welsh mythic cycle The Mabinogion. For us, She Walks in Darkness is a surprise. This previously unpublished novel, brought out by Tachyon Press, is not epic fantasy at all but a gothic thriller.
Written in the early 1960s, She Walks in Darkness was a casualty of Walton’s dispute with a publisher.
Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Evangeline Walton | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Previous SFF Author: David Walton
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