![]() Holdstock restores the terror and allure to myths, and he exposes the ``truth'' behind well-known stories-their violence and barbarity-without any revisionist moralizing. Richard begins a bizarre odyssey, joining Helen Silverlock and her group of adventurers in the wood, encountering various figures out of legend (none of whom are as pleasant or purely heroic as their stories tell), and battling horrors produced by Alex's frightened mind. ![]() Several years later, a strange woman comes to Richard: She claims to have found Alex, but she needs Richard's help to bring him back. ![]() Before long, Alex disappears from his hospital bed and is given up for dead. Richard Bradley's son, Alex, is suddenly struck catatonic. The third in Holdstock's Mythago Wood series about a primeval woodland that generates ``mythagos''-living manifestations of figures out of myth and legend-from the psyches of those who enter it. ![]()
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