Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction

Lifespan: (December 22, 1951 - Present)

Interesting & Unique Facts: de Lint is a Canadian fantasy author and a Celtic folk musician. It is often said that, along with Terri Windling, he established the genre of mythic fiction which falls somewhere between fantasy literature, and mainstream fiction with a magical realist bent.

de Lint lives in Ottawa with his wife, artist and musician MaryAnn Harris. He published three novels under the pseudonym Samuel M. Key which have subsequently been reprinted by Orb Books under the name Charles de Lint. Many of his later stories center around the mythical North American city of Newford with a regular cast of characters that make cameo and feature appearances.

In addition to being the author of numerous novels and short stories, de Lint is also a poet, musician, artist, folklorist, and critic. His poetry can be found on-line in the Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts.

Author's work in order (with publication dates):

Newford Books

• Dreams Underfoot (1993) [short story collection]
• The Dreaming Place (1990)
• From a Whisper to a Scream (1992)
• I'll be Watching You (1994)
• Memory and Dream (1994)
• The Ivory and the Horn (1995) [short story collection]
• Trader (1997)
• Someplace to be Flying (1998)
• Moonlight and Vines (1999) [short story collection]
• Forests of the Heart (2000)
• The Onion Girl (2001)
• Tapping the Dream Tree (2002) [short story collection]
• Spirits in the Wires (2003)
• Medicine Road (2003)
• The Blue Girl (2004)
• Windershins (2006)
• Make a Joyful Noise (2006)
• The Hour before Dawn (2005)
• Old Man Crow (2007)
• Little (Grrl) Lost (2007)
• Promises to Keep (2007)
• Dingo (2008)
• Muse and Reverie (2009) [short story collection]
  

Moonheart Books

• Moonheart (1984)
• Ascian in Rose (1987) [short story]
• Spiritwalk (1992) [omnibus]

Jack Books

• Jack the Giant Killer (1987)
• Drink Down the Moon (1990)
• Jack of Kinrowan (1995) [omnibus]
  

Non-Series Novels

• The Riddle of the Wren (1984)
• Mulengro (1985)
• Yarrow (1986)
• Greenmantle (1988)
• Wolf Moon (1988)
• Svaha (1989)
• Ghostwood (1990)
• Angel of Darkness (1990) [as by Samuel M. Key]
• The Little Country (1991)
• From a Whisper to a Scream (1992) [as by Samuel M. Key]
• I'll be Watching You (1992) [as by Samuel M. Key ]
• Into the Green (1993)
• The Buffalo Man (1999)
• Spirits in the Wires (2003)
• A Circle of Cats (2003) [with Charles Vess]
• Medicine Road (2004)
• Yellow Dog (2008)
• The Mystery of Grace (2009)
  

Short Stories

• Night of the Valkings (1978)
• The Fane of the Grey Rose (1979)
• A Kingly Thing (1979)
• A Tale of Tangle Who Has Many Names (1979)
• Of the Temple in the City of the Burning Spires (1979)
• Nareth the Questioner (1979)
• A Pattern of Silver Strings (1981)
• The Ring of Brodgar (1981)
• The Iron Stone (1981)
• Woods and Waters Wild (1981)
• Dennet & the Fiddler (1982)
• The Valley of the Troll (1984)
• Dragonwood (1984)
• The Fair in Emain Macha (1985)
• Cold Blows the Wind (1985)
• Raven Sings a Medicine Way, Coyote Steals the Pollen (1986)
• The Rat's Alley Shuffle (1986)
• Stick (1986)
• And the Rafters Were Ringing (1986)
• The Weeping Oak (1987)
• A Wish Named Arnold (1987)
• The White Road (1987)
• Thomas the Rhymer (1987)
• Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair (1987)
• The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow (1988)
• The Skin and Knife Game (1988) [with Lee Barwood]
• Into the Green (1988)
• That Explains Poland (1988)
• One Chance (1988)
• Scars (1988)
• Gipsy Davey (1988)
• The Stone Drum (1989)
• Wooden Bones (1989)
• Romano Drom (1989)
• The Drowned Man's Reel (1989)
• The Sacred Fire (1989)
• Timeskip (1989)
• Ghosts of Wind and Shadow (1990)
• Freewheeling (1990)
• A Tattoo on Her Heart (1990)
• Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood (1990)
• The Wild Girl (1990)
• Our Lady of the Harbour (1991)
• The Conjure Man (1991)
• Pity the Monsters (1991)
• But for the Grace Go I (1991)
• Winter Was Hard (1991)
• Ghosts of Wind and Shadow (1991)
• Tallulah (1991)
• There's No Such Thing (1991)
• We Are Dead Together (1991)
• Death Leaves an Echo (1991)
• Paperjack (1991)
• Talllulah (1991)
• The Graceless Child (1991)
• Bridges (1992)
• The Wishing Well (1993)
• Dead Man's Shoes (1993)
• Dream Harder, Dream True (1993)
• Fairy Dust (1993)
• Pal o' Mine (1993)
• Small Deaths (1993)
• In the House of My Enemy (1993)
• The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep (1993)
• The Bone Woman (1993)
• A Tempest in Her Eyes (1994)
• Saxophone Joe and the Woman in Black (1994)
• Heartfires (1994)
• In This Soul of a Woman (1994)
• The Forest Is Crying (1994)
• Coyote Stories (1994)
• Passing (1995)
• Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night (1995)
• The Forever Trees (1995)
• Waifs and Strays (1995)
• Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery (1995)
• The Forest is Crying (1995)
• Bird Bones and Wood Ash (1995)
• The Pochade Box (1995)
• Crow Girls (1995)
• Seven for a Secret (1995)
• The Big Sky (1995)
• Birds (1996)
• Saskia (1996)
• Held Safe by Moonlight and Vines (1996)
• Shining Nowhere but in the Dark (1996)
• My Life as a Bird (1996)
• Wild Horses (1997)
• In the Pines (1997)
• The Invisibles (1997)
• The Fields Beyond the Fields (1997)
• In the Quiet After Midnight (1998)
• May This Be Your Last Sorrow (1998)
• The Pennymen (1998)
• Ten for the Devil (1998)
• China Doll (1998)
• Twa Corbies (1998)
• Second Chances (1998)
• If I Close My Eyes Forever (1999)
• In the Land of the Unforgiven (1999)
• Forest of Stone (1999)
• Pixel Pixies (1999)
• The Buffalo Man (1999)
• Big City Littles (2000)
• Granny Weather (2000)
• Many Worlds Are Born Tonight (2000)
• Masking Indian (2000)
• Embracing the Mystery (2000)
• Making a Noise in This World (2000)
• Wingless Angels (2001)
• Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café (2001)
• Freak (2001)
• Seven Wild Sisters (2002)
• Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box (2002)
• The Words That Remain (2002)
• The Witching Hour (2002)
• Sign Here (2002)
• The Butler's Spirit Tithe (2004)
• The World in a Box (2005)
• Crow Roads (2007)
• Llew the Homeless (2008)
• Cruel Sister (2008)

Collections

• De Grijze Roos (1983)
• Triskell Tales (2000)
• Waifs and Strays (2002)
• Quicksilver & Shadow (2004)
• Triskell Tales 2: Six More Years of Chapbooks (2006)
• Woods and Waters Wild (2008)
• What the Mouse Found (2008)
• Woods and Waters Wild (2009)