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The Night Journey

~ by Terri Windling

Go by coombe, by candle light,

by moonlight, starlight, stepping stone,

and step o'er bracken, branches, briars,

and go tonight, and go alone,

go by water, go by willow,

go by ivy, oak and ash,

and rowan berries red as blood,

and breadcrumbs, stones, to mark the path;

find the way by water's whisper,

water rising from a womb

of granite, peat, of summer heat,

to slake your thirst and fill the coombe

and tumble over moss and stone

and feed the roots of ancient trees

and call to you: go, now, tonight,

by water, earth, phyllomancy,

by candle flame, by spirit-name,

by spells, by portents, myth and song,

by drum beat, heart beat, earth pulsing

beneath your feet, calling you home,

calling you back, calling you through

the water, wood, the waste, the wild,

the hills where Dartmoor ponies pass,

and black-faced sheep, a spectral child,

a fox with pale unnatural eyes,

an owl, a badger, ghostly deer

with horns of star light, candle light

to guide the way, to lead you here,

to lead you to the one who waits,

who sits and waits upon the tor,

he waits and watches, wondering

if you're the one he's waiting for;

he waits by dawn, by dusk, by dark,

by sun, by rain, by day, by night,

his hair as black as ravens' wings,

his eyes of amber, skin milk white,

his skin tattooed with spiral lines

beneath a mask of wood and leaves

and polished stone and sun-bleached bone,

beneath a shirt of spiders' weave,

his wrists weighted with silver bands

and copper braids tarnished to green,

he waits for you, unknown and yet

familiar from forgotten dreams;

you dream and stir upon your bed

and toss and turn among the sheets,

the wind taps at the window glass

and water tumbles through the leat

and through the garden, through the wood,

and over moss and over stone

and tells you: go, by candle light,

and go tonight, and go alone;

he's sent you dreams, he's left you signs,

he's left you feathers, beads and runes,

so go, tonight, by candle light,

by ash and oak, by wood, by coombe.

Digital Collage Artwork : The Night Journey by Raine © Inner Voice Art™

[godzilla-reads]

🍃 A Midsummer Night’s Faery Tale by Wendy Froud and Terri Windling

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Sneezle is a young tree-root faery who has had the misfortune of falling asleep every year and not witnessing the Midsummer Night’s Faery Celebration. This year he’s determined to stay up and stay useful no matter what.

This was such a charming story with charming pictures of Wendy Froud’s creations. I loved how the sets were built and how much care and skill went into each doll. You’ll fall in love with Sneezle and Twig and Titania and each faery you meet, but watch out for the ones who lurk in the shadows.

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Tanith Lee Roundtable

The roundtable discussion, entitled Storyteller: The Legacy and Work of Tanith Lee panel discussion is now available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube. The Outer Dark hosted the panel, which will be on the OD podcast sometime in the future. I had a blast talking with and listening to fellow panelists editor/author Terri Windling, scholars Lisa Kröger, and Melanie R Anderson. The panel was…

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Fae books are some of my favorite, so in honor of my favorite Irish poet, let's have a quick round-up of books with Fae!

OR Melling's The Chronicles of Faerie Series, which includes The Hunter's Moon, The Summer King, The Light Bearer's Daughter, and The Book of Dreams

Literally 99% of everything Juliet Marillier has ever written, with Dreamer's Pool and Wildwood Dancing being my favorites

Brittany N. Williams's That Self-Same Metal

Not one of my favorites, but Holly Black's The Cruel Prince has a metric ton of fae

Terri Windling's The Raven Queen (and the rest of the Voyage of the Basset Series)

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl and The Fowl Twins series

CE Murphy's Walker Papers series and Negotiator Trilogy

Illona Andrews's Magic Bites

Olivia Atwater's Regency Faerie Tales trilogy

Herbie Brennan's The Faerie Wars Chronicles

Gail Carson Levine's books, including Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, and The Princess Tales volumes 1 and 2

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Talking about what magic feels like over on the blog...

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I know I saw somewhere on here a post about Neil Gaiman being selected to give a talk, the Tolkien Lecture, and it included a link to their youtube page where you can listen to the earlier talks. I can't find that post (thought I RB it but maybe not, or maybe it was really more than a week ago? time does fly at this time of the year) or I would append this link to it. BUT ANYWAY I just listened to Terri Windling's talk and it's great! and there are several more to catch up with before Neil's talk gets added to the list.

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Title: The Wood Wife | Author: Terri Windling | Publisher: Orb Books (2003)

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[halewynslady]

one more hour until these legends hit my tablet screen!

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Thursday, November 9th, London. £14 in person, £6.50 online streaming, with discounts for students, seniors, etc.

Myths and stories about fairies and their worlds known as Faerie or Fairyland have a long and resonant place in British folklore especially. Multiple versions of these supernatural beings appear in ancient tales and classic texts from Gawain and the Green Knight to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Peter Pan. Fairies abound in fantasy novels including Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, John Crowley’s Little, Big, Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Jeannette Ng’s Under the Pendulum Sun. Fairies reveal themselves in our world throughout folk tradition and literature, but it is only through great courage or by mysterious accident that humans have travelled to the Land of Faerie itself. Join writers, artists and musicians Ellen Kushner, Jeannette Ng and Terri Windling in conversation with Robert Maslen as they explore these fantastical journeys, and the realms discovered. Plus a rare chance to hear Ellen Kushner’s celebrated account of Thomas the Rhymer, with ballads performed by acclaimed singer Sam Lee.

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☀️ Morning Reading in Progress ☀️

[downthetubes]

Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition opens at the British Library soon, along with events with Neil Gaiman, and many more

Fantasy: Realms of the Imagination, a major exhibition on fantasy opens at the British Library in London on 27th October, and a raft of tie-events includes appearances by Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman.

Fantasy: Realms of the Imagination, a major exhibition on fantasy opens at the British Library in London on 27th October, and a raft of tie-events includes appearances by Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman. In the works for over a year, supported by Wayland Games Limited and the Unwin Charitable Trust, with thanks to The B. H. Breslauer Fund of the American Trust for the British Library, visitors…

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christmas book haul!

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I'm not a meet your heroes kind of person... but I am a 'make little cardboard talismans with carefully chosen framing images' kind of person!

https://saoirsegraves.com/

[pratchettquotes]

Windle realized that talking to Mr. Shoe was very much like talking to the Archchancellor. It didn't actually matter what you said, because he wasn't listening. Only in Mustrum Ridcully's case it was because he just wasn't bothering, while Reg Shoe was in fact supplying your side of the conversation somewhere inside his own head.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man