Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits

What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are almost-familiar as mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world.

Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson– names well known to lovers of fantasy– have given us six stories of the fabulous creatures associated with the element of water. Each story is as different from the others as are the creatures themselves, but all are vividly imagined and powerfully told in the way that their many admirers have learnt to expect from these two writers.