The award-winning novel that propelled author Charles de Lint to his status as a master of urban fantasy, illustrated by Charles Vess. Unique to this Triskell Press edition is a new afterword by de Lint reminiscing on the impact of his seminal work.
When Sara Kendell opens a box of oddments in the storeroom of the Merry Dancers Old Book and Antique Emporium, she has no idea that she'll stumble across anything unusual. But those seemingly ordinary artifacts—a painting, a ring and a flat bone disc—will turn Sara's world upside down and lead her to places she never dreamed could exist: a world of mists and forests, ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards...and restless evil.
In a tale sweeping from ancient Wales to the streets of modern Ottawa, de Lint's unforgettable characters—Sara Kendell; her beloved uncle Jamie; Blue the biker; Kieran the folk musician; RCMP Inspector Tucker; Pukwudji the trickster; the inscrutable Tom Hengyr; and the magic of Tamson House itself—will stay with you forever.
Readers placed Moonheart (1984) on Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century list. It also won the William Crawford Award bestowed by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
Reviews
Charles de Lint is the modern master of urban fantasy. Folktale, myth, fairy tale, dreams, urban legend—all of it adds up to pure magic in de Lint's vivid, original world. No one does it better.
— Alice Hoffman
Charles de Lint writes like a magician. He draws out the strange inside our own world, weaving stories that feel more real than we are when we read them. He is, simply put, the best.
— Holly Black
"Charles de Lint is an impossibly, ridiculously talented sort of man—and I've
been reading him for so long that he pretty much crafted my own ideas of what
a fairy tale ought to be."
—Cherie Priest
"Charles de Lint is a folksinger as well as a writer and it is this voice we hear...
both old and new, lyric, longing, touched by magic."
—Jane Yolen
"He shows that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the
deep mythic literature of our time."
—The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
"You open a de Lint story, and like the interior of a very genial Pandora's box,
the atmosphere is suddenly full of deep woods and quaint city streets and a
magic that's nowhere near so far removed as Middle Earth."
—James P. Blaylock
