Mythago Wood
First edition cover
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| Author | |
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| Cover artist | Eddi Gornall |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Mythago Wood series |
| Genre | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
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Publication date
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1984 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 252 pp |
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| Followed by | Lavondyss (1988) |
Mythago Wood is a fantasy novel written by that was published in the United Kingdom in 1984. The conception began as a short story written for the 1979 Milford Writer's Workshop; next a novella of the same name appeared in the September 1981 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The full-length novel retained the same name and was subsequently released, beginning a series of novels referred to collectively as the "Mythago Wood cycle" or "Ryhope Wood series".
Mythago Wood is set in Herefordshire, England in and around a stand of ancient woodland, known as Ryhope Wood. The story involves the internally estranged members of the Huxley family, particularly Stephen Huxley, and his experiences with the enigmatic forest and its magical inhabitants.
Mythago Wood is a type of fantasy literature, especially the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction. It has received critical acclaim because of its prose, its forest setting, and its exploration of philosophical, spiritual and psychological themes. Mythago Wood won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1985.
Ryhope wood is a fantasy world or fictional realm created by Robert Holdstock for his novella Mythago Wood, published during 1981, though it became more famous after his novel Mythago Wood was first published in 1984. The novels and novellas (but not short stories) in the Mythago Wood cycle (see subsection below) are all set in the world of Ryhope Wood, with the exception of Merlin's Wood, which is set in a similarly magical "sister wood" of Brocéliande in Brittany.
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