Mythic Arts on the Moor

March 4, 2019 1:16 PM

A well-written, wide-ranging, and richly illustrated blog by Terri Windling. Covering all manner of (primarily Western) fairy tales, folklore, and fantasy in the creative arts: writings, drawings/paintings, song, and more. And, present throughout, a steadfast hound.
posted by dancing leaves (5 comments total)

From Windling's books page;

Datlow and Windling also co-edited the award-winning Year's Best Fantasy & Horror annual volumes (St. Martin's Press) for sixteen years -- publishing the stories of A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Vikram Chandra, Susanna Clarke, Charles de Lint, Emma Donohue, Louise Erdrich, Pierrette Fleutiaux, Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, Stephen King, Ursula Le Guin, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Steven Millhauser, Haruki Murakami, Peter Straub, Jane Yolen, and other writers of magical literature from around the globe. In Year's Best, they sought to expand the definitions of "fantasy" and "horror" beyond rigid genre boundaries, and to bring more attention to writing still marginalized at that time by women, writers of color, and foreign writers published in translation.

For those that haven't seen them before, these are gorgeous collections of curated short stories that are well worth hunting down; once I discovered this series I spent a year or two reading my way through them for my daily short story fix.
posted by benzenedream at 2:20 PM on March 4, 2019 [3 favorites]

Agreed with the above - though I've liked some of her individual works, I'll always primarily think of her as a gifted curator ... and this reminds me that I still need to pick up a few early volumes from the Year's Best series.

Thanks for the post!
posted by verschollen at 3:27 PM on March 4, 2019

I just read the entry entitled "Standing Our Ground", with the excerpt from Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, and I'm crying in a work bathroom.
posted by allium cepa at 4:19 PM on March 4, 2019

Terri’s a treasure. She’s one of us who found her path in the wild wood. She holds a lantern and holds the thorns back, drops pebbles for the rest of us to find.
posted by Nancy_LockIsLit_Palmer at 9:17 PM on March 4, 2019

A drink of clear, fresh water in this Trumpified world.

Thank you.

I need this.

Thank you.

Thank you.
posted by LeftMyHeartInSanFrancisco at 9:29 PM on March 4, 2019