A collection of stories from the mysterious world of Ryhop Wood
Behind a house in the English countryside lies a woodland full of bones – but also of mythagos, mysterious creatures generated by human imagination, to whom the bones once belonged before the forest that birthed them reclaimed them. Boys Christian and Steven Huxley, who live in the house, witness their father, in his attempt to scientifically research the wood, fall irretrievably under its destructive spell, gradually becoming someone willing to sacrifice anything, including his family, on the altar of his obsession.
Alongside the novella that precedes the events of the unique Ryhop Wood novel series, the collection The Bone Forest brings more stories imbued with the unique atmosphere and poetry that Robert Holdstock breathed into his tales. Ancient rituals come alive in them once more, somehow familiar and yet terrifying in everything that has long been forgotten.
The new Czech edition is introduced by a foreword by English writer Garry Kilworth, and you can also look forward to a Holdstock short story previously unpublished in Czech, samples of his poetry, and finally the fascinating novella The Thorn.
