Woods so deep and strange

Charles De Lint is highly prolific and has explored a wide range of styles, but Moonheart (1984)set the dominant flavour for his work. When you think of the name Charles De Lint, you think of a very specific kind of urban fantasy.

That high output and dominant flavour has its advantages and disadvantages. As a skilled wordsmith, if you like his prose style or his revisited settings, boy you’re in for a lot of it. But the atmosphere and intensity bounces to wildly varying degrees: from the light-hea...