By C.J. Cherryh. A story fraught with atmosphere featuring Celtic themes and a convincing read of the Otherworld. Fareys, elves, and Celtic lore.

By Charles De Lint. A folk musician is swept into a magical land featuring ancient stones, fiddles, mist swept hills and the sea. The story is set in a Cornwall that most will never see and draws on Cornish myths.

By Marion Zimmer Bradley. A novel that retells Arthurian legends from the female characters point of view and features priestess fighting to save the pagan way of life from patriarchal Christianity.

By Deborah Turner Harris. The first in a trilogy that uses Scottish myth and folklore as a basis.

By Katharine Kerr. A high fantasy series that features a well developed magical world complete with its own language, politics, religion, and history. 6. Evangaline Walton, The Isle of the Mighty. This book, the first in a series of four, is a retelliing of the fourth branch of the Welsh Mabinogion, a collection of medieval manuscripts.

By Evangaline Walton. This book, the first in a series of four, is a retelliing of the fourth branch of the Welsh Mabinogion, a collection of medieval manuscripts.

By Juliet Marillier. This series follows several generations of a family who have a special relationship with the Otherworld and takes place mostly in ancient Ireland.

By Steven Lawhead. A crossover series where the protagonists (university students) are transported from ordinary London to ancient times. This alternate world is filled with Celtic mythology as well as Christian themes.

By Lloyd Alexander. A bildungsroman series about the growth of a young protagonist. This is a children's series and has won Newbery awards. The stories draw on Welsh mythology and the Mabinogion, but does not retell these ancient stories.

By Elizabeth Pope. An award winning young adult novel that weaves together history, myth, and folklore to create a fairy world and the Otherworld. The novel retells the ballad of Tam Lin.