Castleview
Will Shields was not a fanciful man.
New owner of the town's main auto dealership. Not the sort of man to imagine the castle he saw from the attic window. Turrets and towers, sort of shimmering on the horizon.
And his cookbook-writing wife, Ann: feet firmly on the ground, even when driving and nearly running down the giant horseman who loomed out of the dark.
Consider also their daughter Mercedes. More worried about those extra teenage pounds than the strange lady in white who seemed to be hitching a ride.
But then no-one could reasonably expect the Arthurian legends to come to life in a quite ordinary town not a hundred miles from Chicago...
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards.
Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.