Beginning with his first full-length novel, Moonheart: A Romance ( 1984), the loose Newford frame has provided dramatic venues, in which a threatened but inherently idyllic urban environment is crosshatched into Faerie, a realm accessed most intensely through Tamson House, an Edifice that circumambiates a Garden at whose heart grows a version of the World-Tree. Two fantasy series, which dominate his later career, are of some interest for their urban settings in (as it were) the unexplored metropoli of Canada: the Ottawa and the Valley sequence, set in the mild-mannered Canadian capital and the subsequent but similar Newford sequence of tales set in a harsher, Celtic- Magic-ridden vision of a city which somewhat resembles Toronto. Some full-length books and numerous chapbooks, beginning with The Oak King's Daughter ( 1979 chap), his first book, which launched his long sequence, The Tales of Cerin Songweaver.
In early years he published several stories as by Wendelessen (at least once, probably by error, spelt Wendelssen) as Samuel M Key he has published three horror novels, Angel of Darkness ( 1990), From a Whisper to a Scream ( 1992) and I'll Be Watching You ( 1994). (1951- ) Canadian musician and author – born in the Netherlands but in Canada from early infancy – who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Fane of the Gray Rose" in Swords Against Darkness IV (anth 1979) edited by Andrew J Offutt, and who has become one of the most significant, and almost certainly the most prolific, Canadian fantasy authors.
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