Brisingamen

Hartley and Walter de la Mare, while writing more expansively about such YA classics as Lucy M. Boston’s “The Children of Green Knowe,” Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising” and, two of my favorites, Alan Garner’s “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen” and “The Owl Service.”

I remember as a 10-year-old reading the account, in Alan Garner’s novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, of two children descending the mining tunnels that riddle the sandstone of Cheshire’s Alderley Edge.

His best-remembered covers adorned Fontana ghost-story anthologies and Alan Garner novels, including The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

Click here to listen to a sample of Alan Garner’s “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,” read by Philip Madoc.

I myself am looking forward to listening to one of my favorite modern fantasies, Alan Garner’s “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,” read by the incomparable Philip Madoc.