Antecedents Of Contemporary High Fantasy — A Few Thoughts

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Last Friday I posted on US-based genre site the Supernatural Underground, on the topic of “High Romantic Fantasy and The Gathering Of The Lost.”

The thrust of my premise was that;

“The Gathering Of The Lost (and Wall of Night series) is the style of epic that is also known as High Fantasy, or alternately High Romantic Fantasy.

Rightly, I believe, because the chivalric epic of the High Medieval period is a major influence on this style of storytelling: for example, the Morte D’Arthur an...