I love the song of the Erl-King, and I love wildwoods, too--I might have to check out The Erl-King before Mythagos.
It's the fifth story in her extraordinary collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), which gorgeously, rowdily, darkly by turns retells fairy- and folktales from "Little Red Riding Hood" to "Puss-in-Boots" in a variety of times and settings, late nineteenth-century France, Romania on the eve of World War I, Italy of the commedia and a wood of wolves that exists nowhere but in the words Carter uses to create it. As you can tell, I recommend the book highly.
(Then you should read Robert Holdstock, too. Speaking of songs, Lavondyss has as a supporting character Ralph Vaughan Williams.)
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It's the fifth story in her extraordinary collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), which gorgeously, rowdily, darkly by turns retells fairy- and folktales from "Little Red Riding Hood" to "Puss-in-Boots" in a variety of times and settings, late nineteenth-century France, Romania on the eve of World War I, Italy of the commedia and a wood of wolves that exists nowhere but in the words Carter uses to create it. As you can tell, I recommend the book highly.
(Then you should read Robert Holdstock, too. Speaking of songs, Lavondyss has as a supporting character Ralph Vaughan Williams.)