What is Historical Fantasy? This is a question I’ve been asking myself more and more these days. I always viewed “historical fantasy” as the genre of my novels Enoch’s Device and The Key to the Abyss – stories set in the real historical world with fantasy elements, such as magic. But if you look at…
Saint Patrick’s Day is one of my all-time favorite holidays, so today, I’m re-posting an article about Stephen R. Lawhead’s Patrick: Son of Ireland. I had little appreciation for Saint Patrick’s story until I began my research for Enoch’s Device. The novel tells the story of two Irish monks who try to prevent the apocalypse at the end…
The Master’s Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend was the best historical fantasy novel I’d read this year. However, that distinction did not last long because its sequel, The Devil’s Pawn, is even better. The Devil’s Pawn completes the fascinating story of Doctor Johann Georg Faustus. By the time the novel begins in 1518,…
While perusing Amazon’s bestseller list for Historical Fantasy some time ago, I came across The Master’s Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend by German author Oliver Pötzsch. What I discovered upon reading it was an astounding tale supposedly based on the real, historical Doctor Faustus who inspired both Christopher Marlow and Goethe. The book…
Saint Patrick’s Day is one of my all-time favorite holidays, so today, I’m re-posting an article about Stephen R. Lawhead’s Patrick: Son of Ireland. I had little appreciation for Saint Patrick’s story until I began my research for Enoch’s Device. The novel tells the story of two Irish monks who try to prevent the apocalypse at the end…
Robert Masello has become one of my favorite authors of true historical fantasy. The Haunting of H.G. Wells is his fourth novel featuring famous historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker encountering the supernatural in what always proves to be a page-turner. I’m happy to report that Masello’s new novel…
Guy Gavriel Kay is perhaps the most famous writer of what I call “historical” fantasy – that is, fantasy fiction set in a world nearly indistinguishable from our historical own with characters and storylines modeled after actual history. In Sailing to Sarantium, he brings a fictional version of 6th-century Byzantium to life in the first…
Jeff Wheeler has dominated the bestseller chart for historical fantasy for a while now. He does not write historical fantasy in the sense of a story set in the real, historical world, like my novel, Enoch’s Device, or D.B. Jackson’s Thieftaker series. Instead, Wheeler writes what I call “historical” fantasy, much like Guy Gavriel Kay….
One gracious Amazon reviewer recently described Enoch’s Device as “like The Da Vinci Code but set in 997 AD.” I appreciate the comparison. Enoch’s Device is filled with religious mysteries that stretch deep into the past. But there is also a fantasy element to the book, along with an epic scope designed to make it…
It’s been six years since D.B. Jackson’s last Thieftaker novel, Dead Man’s Reach, and boy, have I missed going back to Colonial Boston in the years leading up to the American Revolution! But the wait is over now that Jackson has published a trilogy of novellas titled The Loyalist Witch. The Witch’s Storm is the…
Tonight is Hexennacht, or more commonly known as Walpurgis Night or St. Walpurga’s Eve—which means today my newest novella, Hela’s Bane, is officially on sale at Amazon! You can get your copy here! Hela’s Bane is a prequel to The Fae Dealings, and ultimately, a prequel to the Dragon-Myth Cycle, which begins with Enoch’s Device….