A collection for adults and older teens, The Storyteller and Other
Tales will take you on a journey through exotic worlds and times. Demon
bears take human shape and devils walk in the north of a world where
every hill hosts a god and every river and spring a goddess. Ulfleif, a
warrior-princess who would rather carry a lyre than a sword, is drawn
into an unfinished tale by the storyteller Moth, and old lays of
vengeance and betrayal wake into bloody new life around her. A slave in
Bronze-Age Korthan sees his lovers suffer and die for the crime of
worshipping outlawed gods and in the midst of horror at their sin,
finds his own faith shaken and takes his own first steps on the road to
rebellion. In a tale built on the familiar legends of our world,
Merlin's daughter relates the story of the fall of Arthur's Britain as
you have never heard it, a tale of adultery and treachery old and
well-known, yet fresh and startling in Nimiane's telling. The unnamed
common men of England who faced a later generation of sea-raiders are
given voice once more in the historical tale of the Battle of Maldon,
when English fought Vikings at the Blackwater and lost. In all these
tales, the common thread is otherness; other worlds, other times, other
ways of looking at heroism and tragedy, faith and betrayal and victory.
Build the fire up, shut out the dark, and let The Storyteller carry you
away.
