Mythago Wood is a fantasy novel written by the award winning author Robert Holdstock. This novel was published originally in the United Kingdom during 1984 and is an expanded version of a novella of the same name released previously by Robert Holdstock. This novella appeared in the September 1981 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Mythago Wood begins a series of novels referred to collectively as the "Mythago Wood cycle" or "Ry...
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Mythago Wood is a fantasy novel written by the award winning author Robert Holdstock. This novel was published originally in the United Kingdom during 1984 and is an expanded version of a novella of the same name released previously by Robert Holdstock. This novella appeared in the September 1981 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Mythago Wood begins 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, forest setting, and its exploration of the philosophical, spiritual, and psychological....
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