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Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian writer. Primarily a writer of fantasy fiction, he has composed works of urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism, and mythic fiction. Along with authors like Terri Windling, Emma Bull, and John Crowley, de Lint during the 1980s pioneered and popularized the subgenre of urban fantasy. He writes novels, novellas, short stories, poetry]], and lyrics. His most famous works include: the Newford series of books (Dreams Underfoot, Widdershins, The Blue Girl, The Onion Girl, Moonlight and Vines, Someplace to be Flying, etc.), as well as Moonheart, The Mystery of Grace, The Painted Boy and A Circle of Cats (children's book illustrated by Charles Vess). His distinctive style of fantasy uses American folklore and European folklore; de Lint was influenced by many authors of mythology, folklore, and science fiction, including J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, William Morris, Mervyn Peake, James Branch Cabell, and E. R. Eddison. Some of his mythic fiction poetry can be found online on the Endicott Studio website. As an essayist/critic/folklorist he writes book reviews for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, has judged several literary awards, and has been a writer-in-residence for two public libraries. Personal life Charles de Lint was born in 1951 in Bussum, in North Holland in the Netherlands. His family emigrated to Canada when he was four months old. He grew up in Canada, as well as overseas, but has lived in Ottawa since he was age eleven. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris, and they married in 1980. They now live in Ottawa. Harris is first editor of de Lint's fiction and also his business manager. MaryAnn Harris has been hospitalized since September 6, 2021 for a rare and debilitating tick-borne virus. Career During his late twenties to early thirties, de Lint worked in a record store and played with a Celtic musical band during weekends. Writing Charles de Lint started writing in 1983 and has been a full-time writer ever since, publishing about forty books between 1984 and 1997, and 71 books (excluding foreign editions and reprints), in total, thus gaining a reputation as a master of fantasy. Charles de Lint was one of the contributors to the 1984 Citybook II: Port O' Call role-playing game supplement from Flying Buffalo. He published three horror novels using the pseudonym Samuel M. Key which have subsequently been reprinted by Orb Books as by Charles de Lint. He has also published a children's book, A Circle of Cats, illustrated by artist Charles Vess. Style and settings His main genre, that of contemporary fantasy, which combines the real world with the "otherworld", allows the co-existence of the natural and the supernatural. This has been termed a metaphor for the lack of indigenous folklore in most of Canada living side-by-side with the living oral traditions of the Native Americans. De Lint, however, draws upon not only North American Aboriginal culture, but also the folklore of other cultures. For example, his novel, Moonheart, uses elements of both Native American and Welsh folklore. Many of his early books are set in Ottawa, while others (1990–2009) have been set mainly in his fictional North American city of Newford, inspired by de Lint's favourite aspects of various North American cities. A regular set of characters are used in many different books. More recently, de Lint published an adult novel, The Mystery of Grace (Tor 2009), set in his fictional Southwestern US town, Santa de Vado Viejo, as was his most recent young adult novel, The Painted Boy (Viking 2010). Recognition De Lint has received many awards, including the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Moonlight and Vines, the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award, as well as the Great Lakes Great Books Award for his young adult novel The Blue Girl (Viking, 2004). In 1988 he won the Canadian SF/Fantasy Award, the Casper (now known as the Aurora) for his novel Jack, the Giant-killer (Ace 1987). His novel Widdershins (Tor, 2006) won first place, Amazon.com Editors' Picks: Top 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2006. His 1984 urban fantasy novel, Moonheart, was a best-selling trade paperback for Tor's Orb line. It has been described as a thriller, detective mystery, and otherworld mythic fantasy. Other literary work In addition to being the author of numerous novels and short stories, de Lint is also a poet, folklorist, and critic. His poetry can be found online in the Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts. He has taught creative writing workshops in Canada and the United States, and was writer‑in‑residence for two public libraries in Ottawa. He has also written original songs; his main instruments are flute, fiddle, whistles, vocals and guitar. In 2011, de Lint released his first CD, Old Blue Truck De Lint has also been a judge for the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Music and art De Lint plays folk, Irish and Celtic music with his wife MaryAnn; at one time playing at a local pub, and most recently doing concerts at FaerieWorlds and FaerieCon West in Seattle. He plays multiple instruments and sings and writes his own songs. In 2011 de Lint released his first album, Old Blue Truck, which was released alongside his wife MaryAnn Harris's album, Crow Girls in which he also contributes. Bibliography Novels The Riddle of the Wren. New York: Ace Books. 1984. Moonheart: A Romance. New York: Ace Books. 1984. The Harp of the Grey Rose. Norfolk, Va.: Donning. 1985. Mulengro: A Romany Tale. 1985. Yarrow. 1986. Jack, the Giant-Killer. 1987. Greenmantle. 1988. Wolf Moon. 1988. Svaha. 1989. The Valley of Thunder. Philip José Farmer's Dungeon series #3. 1989. The Hidden City. Philip José Farmer's Dungeon series #5. 1990. Ghostwood. 1990. Drink Down the Moon. 1990. Angel of Darkness. 1990. The Little Country. 1991. Into the Green. 1993. The Wild Wood (Brian Froud's Faerielands, Illustrated by Brian Froud) (1994) Memory and Dream (1994) Someplace to Be Flying (1998) The Road to Lisdoonvarna (2001) The Blue Girl (2004) The Mystery of Grace (2009) Eyes Like Leaves (2009) Under My Skin (2012) Over My Head (2013) Out of This World (2014) The Wind in His Heart (2017) Juniper Wiles (2021) Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls (2022) Young adult novels Some additional young adult novels are listed under their series name below. Little (Grrl) Lost (2007) The Painted Boy (2010) The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (illustrated by Charles Vess) (2013) Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale (illustrated by Charles Vess) (2002) Novellas Berlin (1989) The Fair in Emain Macha (1990) Our Lady of the Harbour (1991)-1992 World Fantasy award nominee Paperjack (1992)-1993 World Fantasy award nominee Death Leaves an Echo (part of three novella collection, Cafe Purgatoriam) (1991) A Circle of Cats (illustrated by Charles Vess) (2003)-2004 World Fantasy award nominee Promises to Keep (20.... Discover the Charles De Lint popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Charles De Lint books.
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Moonheart
Charles de LintFormatting repaired. Sorry to discover there were glitches in the first upload; if you already purchased this book prior to December 25/13, please download it again (at no cost).Mo...
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Trader
Charles de LintWhat is truly important, and what is truly you, when everything is stripped away? In this evocative novel, we meet Max Trader, a renowned guitarmaker living a solitary, quiet life;...
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Ghosts of Wind and Shadow
Charles de LintWhen the restrictions and strife of her home life finally become too much, Lesli Betterberry runs away from home. But the freedom she hopes to find on the street is an illusion and...
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Crow Roads
Charles de LintShort story Crow Roads first appeared in The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2007Set outside of Newford in 1967, Annie lives in T...
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Companions to the Moon
Charles de LintShort story Companions to the Moon first appeared in Realms Of Fantasy, June 2007.Set in Newford in 2007, record shop owner Mary begins to suspect her commonlaw partner is cheating...
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That Was Radio Clash
Charles de LintShort story. That Was Radio Clash first appeared in Taverns of the Dead, ed. by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance 2005), and was most recently reprinted in The Very Best of Char...
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Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box
Charles de LintThis short story related to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest features Lillian at 17 years old. Her discovery of a longlost paint box in the forest, her love of making art, her very fi...
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Emerald Magic
Andrew M. GreeleyMythology and magic come alive in this collection of Irish fantasy stories by some of today's finest authors.Ireland is a nation that holds fast to its history and heritage, and no...
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Yellow Dog
Charles de LintYellow Dog is a short story set near de Lint's fictional desert town of Santo del Vado Viejo, where his novels The Mystery of Grace and The Painted Boy take place, and where some o...
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Paperjack
Charles de LintSet in Newford and featuring musician Geordie Riddell, this novella about a homeless man called Paperjack is classic de Linta poignant, mysterious tale about love, loss and learnin...
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Forests of the Heart
Charles de LintIn the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...
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Dog Boys
Charles de LintDog Boys is an original short story, set in the fictional Southwestern desert city of Santo del Vado Viejo, and is available here for the first time in any format.Brandon is the ne...
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Meditations on Middle-Earth
Karen HaberNOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARDWhen J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middleearth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the ...
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Greenmantle
Charles de LintNot far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, or a goat, or a horned man wearin...
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Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls
Charles de LintAnyone who knows her wouldn't be surprised to learn that Jilly sees the world through a prism of faerie tales. It was years before I came to understand that she wasn't just being w...
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Promises to Keep
Charles de LintIn Jilly’s journey from being the junkie street kid she was, to the cheerful character we know from later Newford tales, she navigates the perils of loyalty to old friends versus n...
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Yarrow
Charles de LintCat Midhir lives in a land of dreams, crossing nightly over the borders of sleep into a magic realm. A land where gnomes hide among standing stones and shelties dwell beneath the w...
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Juniper Wiles
Charles de LintJuniper Wiles once starred as a plucky teen detective in the popular TV show, Nora Constantine. When the series ended seven years ago, Juniper made a decision to leave L.A. and ret...
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New Magics
Patrick Nielsen HaydenWhether it's a tale of a wizard developing his powers or a breakneck chase through New York City in search of the Grail, the best fantasy is all about coming face to face with real...
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Svaha
Charles de LintSvaha means "the time between seeing the lightning and hearing the thundera waiting for promises to be fulfilled."In 2094, protective technology shields Native Enclaves from an out...
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The Very Best of Charles de Lint
Charles de LintWhen asked to choose his “very best” stories, Charles de Lint went directly to his fans, who helped him select this collection of timeless, magical tales. From his beloved Newford ...
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Someplace to Be Flying
Charles de LintCharles de Lint's beloved fictional city of Newford is the backdrop for this riveting urban fantasy which pays homage to ancient Native American legends of secret "animal people" l...
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The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
Charles de Lint & Charles VessIn this whimsical, original folktale, written and illustrated throughout in vibrant full color by two celebrated masters of modern fantasy, a young girl's journey becomes an enchan...
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Dharma
Charles de LintShort story Dharma first appeared in Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy, edited by M. Gerry Weiss & Helen S. Weiss; Tor Books, 2007.Set in Newford during 1967's Su...
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The Wild Wood
Charles de LintShort novel, originally published in 1994, finally in ebook format. Eithnie, a painter living in the remote Eastern woodlands of Canada, finds strange and beautiful creatures ...
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Riding Shotgun
Charles de LintMarshall Coe’s shiftless, troubled life has led to tragedy. In this riveting novella, he’s suddenly given the chance to go back in time and fix his one big mistake, but Marshall fi...
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Dreams Underfoot
Charles de LintWelcome to Charles de Lint’s first collection of Newford stories. Immerse yourself in his gritty fictional cityas much a character as Jilly who paints fey wonders, fiddle player Ge...
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Spiritwalk
Charles de LintTamson House in downtown Ottawa is a place of hidden power, for the House is a door to other lands where Celtic and native American magicks mingle and leak into our own. Magic brea...
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The Dreaming Place
Charles de LintNina and her cousin Ash don’t get along, but now have to share a room. Plagued by nightly dreams about becoming an animal, Nina fears that Ash, who dabbles in the occult, is respon...
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Jack in the Green
Charles de LintJack in the Green is an original novella, set in the fictional Southwestern desert city of Santo del Vado Viejo, and is available here for the first time in any format.Best friends...
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The Forest Is Crying
Charles de LintShort story, originally published in The Earth Strikes Back, Mark Zeising Books, 1994. First time in ebook format.With the recent death of a client social worker Chris Dennison rea...
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Timeskip
Charles de LintIts opening sentence, "Every time it rains a ghost comes walking," is the perfect start to this beautiful, bittersweet story about the hesitant first steps of a relationship. Featu...
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Memory and Dream
Charles de LintStudying under painter Vincent Rushkin, young artist Isabelle becomes so adept that her paintings take on a life of their own. This riveting novel is about the power of art; about ...
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The Little Country
Charles de LintWhen Celtic folk musician Janey Little discovers a secret manuscript in an old attic trunk, strange and frightening things begin to happen. Janey’s perilous story, and the one she ...
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Jodi and the Witch of Bodbury
Charles de LintJodi Shepherd, a feisty teenage orphan raised by her aunt in the English village of Bodbury, spends most of her time helping her eccentric inventor friend, Denzil Gossip, with his ...
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Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night
Charles de LintA charming novella about one of Newford’s bestloved characters: artist and dreamer Sophie Etoile. Lured by mystical Native American fluteplayer Kokopelli, Sophie opens a door in he...