46.1 Erl-King

"My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide?"

"Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side!"


Written by Elana Gomel

Narrated by Alexandra Elroy

Edited by Karl Hughes

With music by Chris Zabriskie and Zapsplat.com

And sound effects provided by Freesoung.org


Elana Gomel is the author of six non-fiction books published by Routledge, Macmillan and others and of numerous articles on subjects ranging from science fiction and fantasy to posthumanism and Victorian literature. Her fantasy and science fiction stories appeared in Apex, Timeless Tales, Mythic, The Fantasist, and other magazines; and in anthologies The Apex Book of World SF, People of the Book, Zion’s Fiction, Ink Stains, Transcendent and others. Her collection of stories Un/home was published by Alban Lake in 2018. She is the author of three fantasy and science fiction novels: A Tale of Three Cities (2013) The Hungry Ones (2018), and The Cryptids (2019). The fairy-tale-based novel Nightwood is scheduled to come out this year.

She can be found at www.citiesoflightanddarkness.com

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