Tales of the Boundaries 1

by Marcus Attwater

“Humans have been telling stories about the elves for hundreds of years. Some of them are silly. Some of them are slanderous. And some of them are true.”
Charles Legris

Tales of the Boundaries is a series of fantasy stories about what happens where this and the otherworld meet. This paperback collection contains:

The Ruins of Cair Nynian
A student in Oxford in the 1970s can’t forget the magical world he visited as a child, or the young king who was his best friend there…

The Dancers Under the Hill
At the end of the eighteenth century, in a remote Prussian barony, six sisters dance with the fairies every full moon, until an old soldier uncovers their secret…

A Fairy Tale
In Regency England, a disgraced elf-lord gets entangled with a scion of the royal family, with unexpected repercussions a hundred years later…

Genres: Fantasy, Historical, Fairy Tales

278 pages, Paperback

Published October 19, 2023

About the author

Marcus Attwater writes mystery, fantasy and historical fiction. He is the owner of Attwater Books, a small publisher and bookseller in the Netherlands. Marcus is a social-media-shy person who believes the best way for authors to interact with readers is to give them stories, not updates. When he is not reading, writing, publishing or selling books (or sometimes when he is) Marcus enjoys listening to French baroque opera, watching Spanish football and looking at Gothic churches.

Reviews

[FelixI · Rating 5 out of 5]

Engaging and thoughtful fantasy stories with a queer twist. More please!

[Matt Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of 3 short stories in a shared Other World continuity. The first of the stories was my favorite by far. But the other 2 were a bit harder to get through. Way too much description about political goings-on and familial blueprints, paragraphs full of proper nouns that have no obvious significance to the story.