The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock: Critical Essays on the Fiction

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 the varied output of Holdstock by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spaciotemporal 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.

Donald E. Morse is a professor at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Oakland in Michigan. He is the author of a dozen books and more than 100 scholarly articles. Klmn Matolcsy is a translator, poet and composer who has written numerous scholarly articles on the literature of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.