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Cover by Anne-Claire Payet |
ANNE OF THE ISLES
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When Bretons tell stories, their tales have the Devil and Death for their main characters and graveyards and wind-swept, demon-haunted hills for their settings. The whistling of the tempest and the distant chimes of a tolling bell is always audible within them.
The White Lady of the Marshes had avenged herself cruelly against the incredulous, they were well-advised never to entrust their boats to the current of the Oust once the north star had risen over the black trees of the Forêt-Neuve...
Two men dressed in long shrouds, as white as snow, were following the dog. When they passed in front of the Steward of Plougaz, the Moon lit their pale faces, their hollow cheeks and the orbits where there were no eyes...
Thank you, Belles-de-Nuit, gentle spirits that the mercy of God allows to wander in the poor by-ways of Brittany!
Anne of the Isles, last priestess of the Celtic Gods... The vengeful White
Lady of the Marshes... The last fairies of mythical Lyonesse... Only Paul
Féval, the author of Vampire
City and Revenants could paint the epic Gothic fantasies of mist-shrouded, storm-beaten Ancient Brittany with
so much color and flamboyance.
Brian M. Stableford
has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as
well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He is also translating the works of Paul Féval and other French writers of the fantastique
for Black Coat Press which also published his most two recent fantasy novels: The New Faust at the Tragicomique, The Wayward Muse and The Stones of Camelot.
Contents:
- Anne des Iles (Anne of the Isles, 1842)
- La Femme Blanche des Marais (The White
Lady of the Marshes, 1842)
- Le Joli Château (The Lovely Chateau,
1844)
- Les Belles-de-Nuit (1862)
by Paul Féval;
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.