In the city of Atlanta, an eccentric university professor introduces three young men to the Secret History of the World, and a search for an ancient treasure begins. Meanwhile, a novice priestess has dreams of ancient rituals and a coming apocalypse. As she undergoes an initiation ceremony, two ancient conspiracies prepare for a final conflict. And as two young people find love, a bitter rivalry is reborn.

As riots rock the world, a few select people experience the unexpected return of “lost” memories from a long ago life and feel an irresistible urge to gather, while others prepare for war. It is humanity’s darkest hour. In the day of our greatest need, King Arthur, Queen Gwenhwyfar, Morgan le Fay, and the Knights of the Round Table have returned as promised. But shadows from the past may destroy them before the last desperate battle even begins.

The Widening Gyre envisions a dangerous future that is all too believable. In fact, many of the events predicted in the book have already started to come to pass. More than a warning, The Widening Gyre offers a glimmer of hope for our own darkest hours.

To read an Abode Acrobat .pdf of the first 36 chapters (the first third or so of the complete book), click here. It's a fairly large file, so you might see a white screen for a few minutes whileit loads.

If you'd rather download, just hold down the option key when you click if you're a Mac user, or right click if you are stuck with Windows.

I've been promising an update, and here it is at last. Most people seem to think this .pdf version is easier to read, so I've removed the html versions that used to be here. I hope you enjoy. The Widening Gyre deals with the return of King Arthur, Morgan Le Fay, Queen Gwenhwyfar, Lancelot, Gawain, and the other Knights of the Round Table. The time is the very near future. The Widening Gyre is the first in a trilogy called The Circle Unbroken. The later volumes will be called What The Thunder Said (which, alas, I may have to divide into two volumes) and The Last Light Flickers.

So why am I doing this? Well, I've always felt the Arthurian Legends are incomplete. There's the prophecy that he'll return some day, of course... but it's more than that. See, the whole time Arthur is sending his Knights out to quest for the Holy Grail (this very powerful feminine artifact/archetype). Morgan Le Fay, his sister and shadow-self, is trying to steal the sword Excalibur (this very primal masculine artifact/archetype... get it?). They're both searching for that which is missing in themselves. The reason everyone fails in the end is because no one is able to use these two powerful symbols together. Camelot falls. Now, the characters must deal with issues of the past, for a grave danger awaits them in the modern age. For more about these ideas, please see my Jung Society articles on fantasy and myth and the Sword and the Grail archetypes.

If you're one of the many people who written asking me when this monster (300,000 words) will be published, stay tuned! I'll have an announcement here very soon. Where does the title come from? It's from the poem The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats. To read it online, Click here. I'd love to know what you think! Please e-mail me. I would sincerely appreciate your feedback... believe me, it helps more than you know.

Many of the revisions are based on comments I've received from people who've read these pages on my Web site. If you're one of those who've taken the time to visit, read, and write to me, thank you. You can't possibly know how much I've appreciated it. Please continue to let me know what you think!

Blackthorne Faire, another novel, is set in the same basic milieu, a few years before.

If you'd like to read more about King Arthur and the Matter of Britain, visit my Mythology and Folklore page.

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