Bibliography of King Arthur
This is a bibliography of works about King Arthur, his family, his friends or his enemies. This bibliography includes works that are notable or are by notable authors.
by Gildas (mentions the Battle of Mons Badonicus, but famously neglects to mention Arthur[1])
De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae
, anonymous
Annales Cambriae
The Legend of St. , anonymous c. 1019 (Saxon resurgence when Arthur is "recalled from the actions of the world" may be a reference to his immortality.;[2] Vortigern mentioned)
Goeznovius
, anonymous, c. 1100
Culhwch and Olwen
Lancelot-Grail
, anonymous, c. 1210s
Perlesvaus
by "Luce de Gat" (1230s) and "Helie de Boron" (c. 1240)
Prose Tristan
anonymous begun 1230s, finished 1240s
Post-Vulgate Cycle
composed between 1235 and 1240
Palamedes
, c. 1250
The Marvels of Rigomer
by Heldrius de Cornwall c. 1260s
Roman de Silence
Roman de Roi Artus
Gyron le courtois
, anonymous
Alliterative Morte Arthure
, anonymous
Stanzaic Morte Arthur
The Avowyng of Arthur
, anonymous
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
, anonymous
The Awntyrs off Arthure
Sir Libeaus Desconus
Yvain and Gawain
Sir Perceval of Galles
Lancelot of the Laik
Arthur
Prose Merlin
""
King Arthur and King Cornwall
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
Arthur of Little Britain
[22]
c. 1500
The Greene Knight
(ballad in the Percy Folio, chastity test story of the "ill-fitting mantle" and the horn)
The Boy and the Mantle
1508
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
The Jeaste of Sir Gawain
by Thomas Hughes, 1587
The Misfortunes of Arthur
Tom a Lincoln
, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father by William Rowley (?1620; first published 1662)
The Birth of Merlin
, published by J. White (1711)
The History of Jack and the Giants
by W. H. Ireland (1799) (a Shakespearian forgery)
Vortigern and Rowena
"" (1805)
Arthur o' Bower
The Lady of Shalott
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by (1862)
James Knowles
Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
War in Heaven (1930) by , a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail
Charles W. S. Williams
The Little Wench (1935) by
Philip Lindsay
Merlin's Godson
King of the World's Edge
Taliessin through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) by (poem cycles)
Charles W. S. Williams
The Once and Future King
Rosemary Sutcliff
The Lantern Bearers
The Crystal Cave
The Mabinogion Tetralogy (1974) by Evangeline Walton.
(1978) and The Enchantresses (1998) by Vera Chapman (the latter with Mike Ashley)
The Three Damosels
(1980) by David J. Shirt
The Old French Tristan Poems
The White Raven (1988) by (Tristan and Isseult)
Diana L. Paxson
Taliesin
Child of the Northern Spring
The King (1990) by
Donald Barthelme
The Dragon and the Unicorn
(1994), The High Queen (1995), (collected in Queen of Camelot (2002)), Prince of Dreams (2004), and Grail Prince (2003) by Nancy McKenzie
The Child Queen
by Diana L. Paxson: The Book of the Sword (1999), The Book of the Spear (1999), The Book of the Cauldron (1999), The Book of the Stone (2000).
Hallowed Isle
Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country
The Warlord Chronicles
Sword of the Rightful King
The Squire's Tale
The Forever King
Stones of Power
Anonymous
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Artorius by
John Heath-Stubbs
Quirinius, Britannia's Last Roman by (2021)
Erik Hildinger
by Anthony Price (1975) (The sixth book in the Dr. David Audley series uses the Arthur myth as a MacGuffin in a modern spy thriller.)
Our Man in Camelot
Firelord
The Tales of Arthur
The Hawk's Grey Feather
A Dream of Eagles
The Lost Years of Merlin Epic
The Lost Years of Merlin
and The Empty Throne by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world
The King Awakes
Merlin's Bones by
Fred Saberhagen
by Wallace Breem; the coming of Arthur is foreseen by the chief of Segontium in the last page of the book
Eagle in the Snow
by David Drake
The Dragon Lord
Guinevere series (1996), by Sharan Newman.
Black Horses for the King (1996) by Anne McCaffrey.
, a comic book series that reincarnates Arthur and his knights in the far future
Camelot 3000
, a fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay
The Fionavar Tapestry
, A puzzlehunt book which focused heavily on Merlin and Nimue having a love after Arthur has been entombed; it offered a cash prize as well as a gold, silver, bronze and crystal wand. However, the puzzle went unsolved and the prize unclaimed.
The Merlin Mystery
Hawk of May
series by Michael Scott mentions many artifacts and characters from Arthurian legend
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
The Magic Tree House Books
Tales of Guinevere series by .
Alice Borchardt
Corbenic by (2002)
Catherine Fisher
Tristan and Isolde (2002) series by
Rosalind Miles
Sword of the Rightful King by (2003)
Jane Yolen
The House of Pendragon
The Firebrand
by Rick Yancey (2005)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
Dracula vs. King Arthur by Adam Beranek, and Chris Moreno (2007)
Christian Beranek
Orion and King Arthur by (2011)
Ben Bova
Camelot Lost by Jessica Bonito () (2008)
Jessica McHugh
The Sangreal Trilogy by
Amanda Hemingway
Sword of Darkness by
Kinley MacGregor
Knight of Darkness by
Kinley MacGregor
The Book of Mordred by
Vivian Vande Velde
Sarah Zettel
Merlin's Dragon
The Great Tree of Avalon
Gwenhwyfar (2009) by .
Mercedes Lackey
The Seven Deadly Sins
series contains many Arthurian figures, including King Arthur's son as a central character (2013–2020)
The School for Good and Evil
Garden of Avalon by
Kinoko Nasu
Camelot Rising
Seven Endless Forests by (2020)
April Genevieve Tucholke
Legendborn by (2020)
Tracy Deonn
Arthur's Britain by
Leslie Alcock
The Quest for Arthur's Britain by
Geoffrey Ashe
The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650
John Morris
King Arthur: The Making of the Legend by
Nicholas J. Higham
King Arthur: Myth-Making and History by
Nicholas J. Higham
The Development of Arthurian Romance by
Roger Sherman Loomis
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages edited by
Roger Sherman Loomis
List of works based on Arthurian legends
Bromwich, Rachel (1961), (snippet) (1st ed.), Cardiff: University of Wales Press
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Welsh Triads
Lacy, Norris J., ed. (1986), The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Garland