DARK MIST RISING: AVALON UNVEILED

Peel Castle, Peel Isle, Isle of Man: The Original for my "Avalon" Celebrated in literature, film, and song, the world of Camelot has survived in varied form for over fifteen hundred years.   Yet even in this age of science and discovery, this fabled realm remains elusive, lurking just beyond the glimpse of the modern eye.   A veil obscures Avalon, as tantalizing and intangible today as it was long ago, when aged scholars painstakingly copied decaying manuscripts by hand, bent close over their work in the dim light of a single candle. Combining twenty years of research, plus the fruits of a three-week trip to the British Isles and my original etymological findings, my new series of books, The Annals of Anavere , tells the tale of Camelot as it must have been in the days of gods and grails: a richly-tapestried world of savage tribes and noble Roman patricians, fierce warrior chieftains, battle maidens, and strange, pagan magicians in full panoply. In the first of th