“The Matter Of Britain”: Arthurian Fantasy

On Wednesday I posted on Mary Stewart’s The Hollow Hills and how I feel it is still standing up well to the test of time.

I also mentioned that I regard “her Arthurian Fantasy trilogy, The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment (1979) … [as] … one of the early defining works in the swathe of Arthurian-based works for adult readers that dominated 1970s and 1980s Fantasy literature—with the theme continuing to maintain traction through into the 1990s.”

The Arthurian cyc...