The Collapsing Castle

by Haydn Middleton

A historical fantasy interweaving the legends of the past with a contemporary love story. It features a historian who becomes obsessed with King Vortigern the Thin - a key figure in myth-history, a fascination which is shared by one of his students with whom he has a passionate love affair.

1 pages, Hardcover

First published March 13, 1991

About the author

Haydn Middleton was born in Reading and studied History at Oxford, where he now lives. He has worked in advertising and publishing, lectured in British myth and legend, and written a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite intriguing, this story of a part-time History lecturer, who is infatuated with a young woman who has a strange connection to Vortigen, a mythological 5th century British hero, as well as a colleague, an expert on myth and legend who impacts his life in unusual ways, is gripping early on with a menacing edge, particularly relating to his young daughter, but the later move to magic/myth and the familial circumstances involving his successful wife for me doesn’t match the initial promise. Still, an entertaining read.