Mad Merlin

In the tradition ofThe Mists of AvalonandMythago Wood, J. Robert King weaves an epic tale of Avalon, Excalibur, the Once and Future king, and the magician Merlin as he draws on the ideas and writings of Joseph Campbell to shape and interpret the legendary Arthurian mythos.

J. Robert King is an Origins Award-winning author for his gaming fiction. Mad Merlin is the first book of his Arthurian trilogy that also includes Lancelot Du Lethe and Le Morte D'Avalon. He lives in Burlington, Wisconsin.

Mad Merlin
BOOK ONE Madness 
 
For Elias the infant King who saved mePrologueEveryone seems to know me. After fifteen hundred years, they remember me. Everyone knows Merlin. I am, of course, delighted.You're smiling in recognition, aren't you?There was a time when I didn't even know myself. I was mad. I was lost. The secret of my past was hidden even from me. To discover that secret, I walked an arduous and perilous road. I would not have survived that journey, except that I had a friend at my side, a young man everyone also knows.This is the story of how we found out who we were. This is the story of King Arthur and mad Merlin ... .Copyright © 2000 by J. Robert King