The Wild Hunt (Stories of the Chase)

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The Wild Hunt occurs in European folklore and typically involves a ghostly or supernatural group of hunters passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may be elves, or fairies, or the dead, and the leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Odin, but may variously be a historical, legendary, or biblical figure, or an unidentified lost soul or spirit either male or female.

Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, or, at best, the death of the one who witnessed it. People encountering the Hunt might also be abducted to the underworld or the fairy kingdom. In some instances, it was also believed that people’s spirits could be pulled away during their sleep to join the cavalcade.

Collected here are all new stories of the Wild Hunt incorporating its diverse mythology and drama.

The Wild Hunt features the stories:

Cycle of the White Hart by Hailey Piper
The Unquiet Night by Claire Davon
No Iron in Eden by Maria Schrater
Tomb For Two by Jan Rivers
The Wild Mouse Hunt by Evergreen Lee
A Voice Fleeing in the Wilderness by Buzz Dixon
Holda's Road by Allyson Shaw
A-Wilding She Will Go by Paula Hammond
Into the Forest by Elliot Harper
Red Ears by Graeme Davis
Owl and Stag by Christine Aikens Wolfe
Harry the Nab and the Management Challenge by John P. Kenny
The End of Winter by Alicia Cay
The Sound of Their Beating Wings by Jamie Lackey
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With One Eye, Bright as a Star by Angeline B. Adams and Remco van Straten