Series
Ottawa and the Valley
Charles de Lint · 6 novels · 3 novellas · 1 novelette · 6 short stories · 1 collection · 1984–2002
Charles de Lint set several of his early urban fantasies in and around Ottawa before creating his better-known invented city of Newford. Moonheart (1984) follows antique-store owner Sara Kendell and her uncle after a mysterious ring pulls them into the Otherworld, where they team up with a wizard and a Welsh bard against forces threatening both worlds; its sequel Spiritwalk continues their story, while other novels and story collections gathered under this heading -- including Yarrow and Greenmantle -- share the same Ottawa-area setting and folklore-steeped approach to modern fantasy.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Jack the Giant-Killer(2 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Ottawa and the Valley at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s8
- 1990s7
- 2000s2
Shape
6 novels · 3 novellas · 1 novelette · 6 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:urban fantasyfaenorth americacontemporaryeerieadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 77% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book13 of 17 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Yarrow: An Autumn Taledarkest
- The Road to Lisdoonvarnabrightest
- Westlin Windcalmest
- Jack, the Giant-Killermost intense