
In the early 1980s, when she was asked to contribute to some anthologies she offered four fine stories that had been written decades earlier but which had never appeared in print. The first appeared in Weird Tales in 1950. During her lifetime she published only a small number of short stories. Over her long career she published three other novels, Witch House (1945), The Cross and the Sword (1956), and The Sword Is Forged (1983), the latter being the first volume of a Theseus trilogy which she had completed in the mid-1940s and entirely re-written in the mid-1950s, and which she was revising again in the 1980s. Evangeline Walton, the pen-name of Evangeline Ensley (1907-1996), is perhaps best known for her Mabinogion tetralogy, which is comprised of The Virgin and the Swine (1936 retitled The Island of the Mighty in 1970), The Children of Llyr (1971), The Song of Rhiannon (1972), and Prince of Annwn (1974).
