Charles de Lint

Author of Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection

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About the Author

Charles de Lint, an extraordinarily prolific writer of fantasy works, was born in the Netherlands in 1951. Due to his father's work as a surveyor, the family lived in many different places, including Canada, Turkey, and Lebanon. De Lint was influenced by many writers in the areas of mythology, show more folklore, and science fiction. De Lint originally wanted to play Celtic music. He only began to write seriously to provide an artist friend with stories to illustrate. The combination of the success of his work, The Fane of the Grey Rose (which he later developed into the novel The Harp of the Grey Rose), the loss of his job in a record store, and the support of his wife, Mary Ann, helped encourage de Lint to pursue writing fulltime. After selling three novels in one year, his career soared and he has become a most successful fantasy writer. De Lint's works include novels, novellas, short stories, chapbooks, and verse. He also publishes under the pseudonyms Wendelessen, Henri Cuiscard, and Jan Penalurick. He has received many awards, including the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Moonlight and Vines, the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award, as well as the Great Lakes Great Books Award for his young adult novel The Blue Girl. His novel Widdershins won first place, Amazon.com Editors' Picks: Top 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2006. In 1988 he won Canadian SF/Fantasy Award, the Casper, now known as the Aurora for his novel Jack, the Giant Killer. Also, de Lint has been a judge for the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Bram Stoker Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: C. de Lint, Samuel M. Key, Chales de Lint, Charles de Lint, Charles de Lint, Charles de Line, Charles D. Lint, Charles de Lint, Charles de Lind, Lint De Charles, Charl'z de Lint, Charles de De Lint, Samuel M. Key (Charles de Lint), as Samuel M. Key Charles de Lint, Samuel M (pseudo) Charles; Key de Lint, Charles De & Charles Vess (artist) Lint

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Series

Newford Stories

Jack of Kinrowan

Moonheart

Ottawa and the Valley

Works by Charles de Lint

Popular Recent

Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection (1993) 2,152 copies

Moonheart (1984) 1,937 copies

The Onion Girl (2001) 1,881 copies

The Blue Girl (2004) 1,622 copies

Memory and Dream (1994) 1,603 copies

Someplace to be Flying (1998) 1,573 copies

The Little Country (1991) 1,539 copies

Forests of the Heart (2000) 1,285 copies

Widdershins (2006) 1,199 copies

The Ivory and the Horn (1995) 1,144 copies

Moonlight & Vines (1999) 1,119 copies

Greenmantle (1988) — Author — 1,111 copies

Spirits in the Wires (2003) 1,104 copies

Jack of Kinrowan: Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon (1995) 1,076 copies

Yarrow (1986) 1,063 copies

Trader (1997) 1,061 copies

Spiritwalk (1992) 1,028 copies

Into the Green (1993) 941 copies

Tapping the Dream Tree (2002) 856 copies

Wolf Moon (1988) 844 copies

The Riddle of the Wren (1984) 785 copies

Waifs and Strays (2002) 765 copies

The Wild Wood (1994) 765 copies

The Dreaming Place (1990) 735 copies

Svaha (1989) 683 copies

Mulengro (1985) 670 copies

The Harp of the Grey Rose (1985) 655 copies

Little (Grrl) Lost (2007) 623 copies

The Mystery of Grace (2009) 569 copies

Jack, the Giant Killer (1987) 487 copies

Angel of Darkness (1990) 407 copies

The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (2013) 405 copies

Dingo (2008) 404 copies

The Very Best of Charles de Lint (2010) 395 copies

From a Whisper to a Scream (1992) 378 copies

Medicine Road (2004) 365 copies

Muse and Reverie (2009) 363 copies

Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale (2002) 356 copies

Promises to Keep (2007) 342 copies

Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon: The Valley of Thunder (1989) 287 copies

The Painted Boy (2010) 273 copies

Circle of Cats (2003) 271 copies

I'll Be Watching You (1994) 264 copies

Drink Down the Moon (1990) 256 copies

Eyes Like Leaves (2010) 217 copies

Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks (2000) 209 copies

Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon: The Hidden City (1990) 193 copies

Ill Met in Lankhmar / The Fair in Emain Macha (1990) — Contributor — 178 copies

Quicksilver & Shadow: Collected Early Stories, Vol. 2: Contemporary, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction Stories (2005) 129 copies

The Newford Stories (Dreams Underfoot; The Ivory and The Horn; Moonlight and Vines) (1999) 117 copies

The Wind in His Heart (2018) 116 copies

A Handful of Coppers: Collected Early Stories, Vol. 1: Heroic Fantasy (2003) 112 copies

The Hour Before Dawn and Two Other Stories from Newford (2005) 107 copies

Under My Skin: Wildlings Book 1 (Volume 1) (2012) 96 copies

The Road to Lisdoonvarna (2001) 91 copies

Juniper Wiles (2021) 87 copies

Woods and Waters Wild: Collected Early Stories (2008) 80 copies

What the Mouse Found (2008) 70 copies

Triskell Tales 2: Six More Years of Chapbooks (2006) 70 copies

Old Man Crow (2006) 66 copies

Make a Joyful Noise (2006) 63 copies

Jack in the Green (2012) 60 copies

Newford Stories: Crow Girls (2015) 56 copies

Over My Head (Wildlings) (Volume 2) (2013) 52 copies

Cafe Purgatorium: Three Original Novels of Horror and the Fantastic (1991) 51 copies

Our Lady of the Harbour [short story] (1991) 51 copies

Yellow Dog (2008) 48 copies

Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls (2022) 44 copies

Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair [short fiction] (1991) 40 copies

The Buffalo Man (1999) 39 copies

Hedgework and Guessery (1991) 37 copies

Ascian in Rose (1987) 36 copies

Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night (2015) 35 copies

Westlin Wind (1989) 34 copies

Ghosts of Wind and Shadow (1991) 33 copies

Companions to the Moon (2007) 32 copies

Out of This World (Wildlings) (Volume 3) (2014) 31 copies

The Butter Spirit's Tithe (2004) 30 copies

Ghostwood (1990) 30 copies

The Wishing Well (1993) 29 copies

Refinerytown (2001) 28 copies

This Moment (2005) 27 copies

Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood (1990) 27 copies

Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon, Omnibus Volume 2: Valley of Thunder/Lake of Fire (1989) 26 copies

Dog Boys (2012) 24 copies

Paperjack (2015) 24 copies

Big City Littles (2000) 21 copies

Timeskip (2015) — Author — 21 copies

Riding Shotgun (2007) 21 copies

Crow Roads (2007) 21 copies

That Was Radio Clash (2005) 16 copies

Dharma (2006) 16 copies

Das verborgene Volk (1995) — Author — 13 copies

Sheriff Poole & The Mech Gang (2013) 13 copies

The Bone Woman [short story] 12 copies

Pixel Pixies (1999) 12 copies

Horsepower & Medicine (2019) 12 copies

Die vergessene Musik (1994) — Author — 11 copies

Crow Girls (1995) 10 copies

Berlin (1989) 10 copies

Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery 10 copies

Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon (1988) 8 copies

Sign Here (2002) 8 copies

The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep (1993) 8 copies

The Forest Is Crying (2020) 7 copies

Sortilèges (2001) — Contributor — 6 copies

A Pattern of Silver Strings (1981) 6 copies

Coyote Stories [short fiction] 6 copies

Somewhere in My Mind There is a Painting Box (2016) 6 copies

The Stone Drum 5 copies

Laughter In The Leaves (1984) 5 copies

The Badger In The Bag (1985) 5 copies

The Conjure Man 5 copies

The Fields Beyond the Fields (1998) 5 copies

The Oak King's Daughter (1979) 4 copies

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Freewheeling 4 copies

And The Rafters Were Ringing 4 copies

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Sisters (2002) 3 copies

Spells and Spirits: An Urban Fantasy Collection (2015) 3 copies

Tallulah [short story] 3 copies

Second chances (1998) 3 copies

Glass Eyes And Cotton Strings (1982) 3 copies

The World in a Box (2004) 3 copies

Jodi and the Witch of Bodbury (2014) 3 copies

Barrio Girls (2019) 3 copies

The drowned man's reel (1988) 3 copies

In Mask And Motley (1983) 3 copies

The Fair in Emain Mancha 3 copies

Twa Corbies [short story] 2 copies

Sweet Forget-Me-Not 2 copies

Pulphouse: A Weekly Fiction Magazine $ 4 (August 17, 1991) (1991) 2 copies

In the Pines [Newford] 2 copies

Winter Was Hard [short story] 2 copies

Spells and Spirits: An Urban Fantasy Collection 2 copies

The calendar of the trees (1984) 2 copies

A Tangle of Green Men 2 copies

May This Be Your Last Sorrow {short story} 2 copies

Dead Man's Shoes [short story] 2 copies

The moon is a meadow : a tale of Tam Tinkern (1980) 2 copies

Pity The Monsters 2 copies

Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon Vol. 3, The Valley of Thunder 2 copies

Bridges 2 copies

Trading Hearts At The Half Kaffe Café 2 copies

We Are Dead Together 2 copies

Little (Grrl) Lost [Short Story] 2 copies

Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon Vol. 5, The Hidden City (2017) 2 copies

Symphonie macabre (1993) 2 copies

Scattered gold II. one-hundred-and forty-two fiddle tunes / Part one (2013) 2 copies

In the House of My Enemy [short story] 2 copies

Barrio Girls 1 copy

The Dead Man's Reel 1 copy

The Forest Is Crying 1 copy

The Lark In The Morning 1 copy

Death Leaves an Echo 1 copy

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Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon Vol. 3, The Valley of Thunder 1 copy

Dragonfields: Tales of Fantasy, No. 4, Winter '83 (1983) 1 copy

Jodi and the Witch of Bodbury 1 copy

Yarrow by Charles de Lint (1986-10-01) 1 copy

By Charles de Lint Dreams Underfoot (Newford) [Mass Market Paperback] 1 copy

Cast a Cold Eye 1 copy

Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon Vol. 5, The Hidden City 1 copy

House of Green Turf, The 1 copy

Autograph, (Fantasy Writer), S. 8x10 Photo Book Page 1 copy

The Universal Soldier 1 copy

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Small Deaths [short story] 1 copy

Sacred Fire [short story] 1 copy

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Pixie Pixies 1 copy

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Granny Weather 1 copy

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Bird Bones and Wood Ash 1 copy

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Passing 1 copy

Dark Eyes Faith And Devotion 1 copy

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World Fantasy Convention 1984 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: de Lint, Charles Henri Diederik Hoefsmit
Other names: Key, Samuel M. (pseudonym)
Wendelessen (pseudonym)
Birthdate: 1951-12-22
Gender: male
Nationality: Netherlands
Canada
Country (for map): Canada
Birthplace: Bussum, Netherlands
Places of residence: Bussum, Netherlands
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupations: writer of fantasy fiction
folk musician
book critic
folklorist
Relationships: Harris, MaryAnn (spouse and agent)
Organizations: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
SF Canada
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Awards and honors: World Fantasy Award
Agent: MaryAnn Harris
Short biography: http://www.sfsite.com/charlesdelint/b...

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Reviews

A Circle of Cats by Charles De Lint

This story is a truly lovely tale that reads like an old, traditional fairy story - in a way that makes it a children's story, but stays true to the balance of bargains and wild things and danger and magic just at the corner of your eye but also hidden and waiting everywhere.

I rather adored Lillian very swiftly, and the way she was shown searching for fairies but also offering kindness and care - and respect - to all manner of wild things, and looking only for the fun and the magic of it was simply wonderful.… (more)

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