Written in 1899 The Immortal Hour is moody, dreamy meditation on life, death, love and immortality. Based loosely on the Irish myth "The Wooing of Etain," the story follows the love of a mortal king, Eochaidh for an immortal fairy woman Etain who at the end of a year with him is reclaimed by her immortal lover, Midir. Woven though out is the enigmatic and dark fairy fool, Dalua, who stands on the threshold between the worlds. This critical edition of The Immortal Hour contains an introductory essay with a biography of the author, analysis of the play and the history of its success as an opera. The text of the play itself is fully annotated with the references to Celtic mythology and a comparison to an earlier publication of it.

The Immortal Hour

Literature & Fiction

Fiona, Macleod

Dramas & Plays

R J Stewart Books

Excerpt from The Immortal Hour: A Drama in Two Acts Eochaidh, and the immortal love of Midir this is new, perhaps: though what seems new may be the old become transparent only, the old in turn being often the new seen in reverse as one may for the first time see a star in a deep water that has already immemorially mirrored it. Nor has Dalua part or mention in the antique legend. Like other ancient things, this divinity hath come secretly upon us in a forgetful time, new and strange and terrible, though his unremembered shadow crossed our way when first we set out on our long travel, in the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Immortal Hour: A Drama in Two Acts (Classic Reprint)

Literary

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from The Winged Destiny: Studies in the Spiritual History of the GaelTo you, dear friend, let me dedicate this bindweed of thoughts and dreams, which had their life by the grey shores you, also, love. Have you not wandered there often, seeking forgetfulness, and, wandering, found peace?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Winged Destiny: Studies in the Spiritual History of the Gael (Classic Reprint)

Poetry

A Home Among the Snow Gums

Bolinda/HarperCollins Audio

This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson.These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror a now widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satans Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973).But as this collection shows, writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore long before. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers

Damnable Tales

Shirley Jackson

E.F. BENSON

Walter De LA Mare

Robert-Louis-Stevenson

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Eleanor Scott

Edith, Nesbit

Arthur, Machen

M.R.James

Robert Aickman

Thomas, Hardy

Grant, Allen

Margery Lawrence

H.B. Marriott-Watson

Genre Fiction

Unbound

The Ghost of Fear and Others: H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Vol. 1

Seabury, Quinn

M.P. Shiel

E. Hoffmann Price

Théophile, Gautier

H.G.Wells

Lord, Dunsany

F. Marion Crawford

Edward Lucas White

Arthur J. Burks

Rudyard, Kipling

Edgar-Allan-Poe

Nathaniel, Hawthorne

Dark Renaissance Books

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