I’m horrified that there are still people defending Marion Zimmer Bradley. I just read a post from Kelle Bandea on Substack about how she posted about the abuse and people were attacking her for “cancelling” MZB’s books.
I get it if people don’t know about the abuse, but once you do know about it, it should be a massive dealbreaker.
Christine Hoff Kraemer and I edited this entire anthology, Pagan Consent Culture, which talks about creating a culture of consent within Paganism and one of the contributions talks about the issues around The Mists of Avalon, and the abusive incidents described in the novel.
There were also a lot of people talking about this online when Moira Greyland first stated what had happened. And there was another discussion about it all recently because of someone else who was a friend of MZB.
People should read and subscribe to The Wild Hunt Pagan News: it exists so that we can all be informed about the issues that matter.
There are also many better books based on or about the Arthurian myth.
- The Mabinogion—the oldest stories about Arthur
- Le Morte d’Arthur — Thomas Malory
- The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment — Mary Stewart
- Morgan is my Name — Sophie Keetch
