Modern Retellings

1500s

• The Misfortunes of Arthur by Thomas Hughes (1587)

• The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser (1590)

1600s

• The Works of Thomas Middleton (1620)

• The Birth of Merlin by William Shakespeare and William Rowley (1662)

• King Arthur - The British Worthy Opera by John Dryden and Henry Purcell (1691)

1700s

• From Camelot to China translated by Annegret Oehme (1789)

• Merlin in Love by Aaron Hill (1790)

• Vortigern and Rowena by William Shakespeare (Apocryphal) (1799)

1800s

• Tales of Wonder by M. G. Lewis (1801)

• The Works of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson (1810)

• Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances by George Ellis (1811)

• Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1859)

• Maid Avoraine by R. Williams Buchanan (1862)

• Six Ballads About King Arthur by Your Loving Granny (1881)

• The Fortunate Island by Max Adeler (1882)

• Post-Laureate Idyls & Other Poems by Oscar Fay Adams (1886)

• Tales of King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table by Margaret Vere Farrington (1888)

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (1889)

• Mordred, A Tragedy by Henry Newbolt (1895)

• King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr (1895)

• The Knights of the Round Table by William Henry Frost (1898)

1900-1909

• The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems edited by Francis R Lane (1900)

• King Arthur and His Noble Knights by Mary MacLeod (1902)

• Sir Marrok by Allen French (1902)

• Five Arthurian Poems by William Morris (1902)

• The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang (1902)

• The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (#1) by Howard Pyle (1903)

• The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (#2) by Howard Pyle (1905)

• The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis by Clemence Housman (1905)

• Lays of the Round Table by Ernest Rhys (1905)

• Kairo-Kō: A Dirge by Natsume Sōseki (1905)

• Guenevere; A Play in Five Acts by Stark Young (1906)

• The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions (#3) by Howard Pyle (1907)

• A Lady of King Arthur’s Court by Sara Hawk Sterling (1907)

• The Story of Sir Galahad by Mary Blackwell Stirling (1908)

• The Birth of Galahad by Richard Hovey (1909)

1910-1919

• The Story of The Grail and The Passing of Arthur (#4) by Howard Pyle (1910)

• Hero Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. Ebbutts (1910)

• The Book of Bleheris by C. S. Lewis (1910)

• The Road to Avalon by Coningsby Dawson (1911)

• The Story of Parzival by Mary Blackwell Stirling (1911)

• King Arthur’s Knights by Henry Gilbert (1911)

• Parsifal illustrated by Willy Pogany (1912)

• Stories From King Arthur and His Round Table by Beatrice Clay (1913)

• Sir Agravaine by P. G. Wodehouse (1914)

• The Tale of Lohengrin - Knight of the Swan illustrated by Willy Pogany (1914)

• The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table by Alfred W Pollard and Arthur Rackham (1917)

• Spirits in Bondage by C. S. Lewis (1919)

1920-1929

• Lancelot by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1920)

• A Forgotten Idyll by W. B. Scofield (1921)

• Cloud Castle and Other Papers by Edward Thomas (1922)

• Collected Poems by Rolfe Humphries (1924-1966)

• Galahad by John Erskine (1926)

• Peronnik the Fool by George Moore (1926)

• The Altar of the Legion by Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1926)

• Merlin by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927)

• Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927)

1930-1939

• Tristan and Isolde: Restoring Palamede by John Erskine (1932)

• Launcelot & Guenevere by Richard Hovey (1934)

• Prince Valiant (#1-24) by Hal Foster (1937-84)

• The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis (1938-1946)

1940-1949

• Plays For Plain People by James Bridie (1944)

• Arthur the Bear of Britain by Edward Frankland (1944)

• The Merriest Knight by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (1946-2001)

1950-1959

• Porius by John Cowper Powys (1951)

• King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green (1953)

• The Enchanted Cup by Dorothy James Roberts (1953)

• The Eagles Have Flown by Henry Treece (1954)

• Launcelot, my Brother by Dorothy James Roberts (1954)

• The Queen’s Knight by Marvin Borowsky (1955)

• To The Chapel Perilous by Naomi Mitchison (1955)

• The Great Captains by Henry Treece (1956)

• The Once and Future King by T. H. White (1958)

• The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff (1959)

• The Pagan King by Edison Marshall (1959)

✧ 1960-1969 ✧

• Gareth of Orkney by Edith Margaret Robertson Ditmas (1960)

• Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff (1963)

• Kinsmen of the Grail by Dorothy James Roberts (1963)

• The Green Man by Henry Treece (1966)

• The Emperor Arthur by Godfrey Turton (1967)

• Stories of King Arthur by Blanche Winder (1968)

• Narrative Poems by C. S. Lewis (1969)

1970-1979

• The Crystal Cave (#1), The Hollow Hills (#2),  The Last Enchantment (#3), The Wicked Day (#4) by Mary Stewart (1970-1983)

• Tristan & Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff (1971)

• Drustan the Wanderer by Anna Taylor (1971)

• Merlin’s Ring by H. Warner Munn (1974)

• Arthur of the Britons by Rex Edwards (1975)

• Lionors, Arthur’s Uncrowned Queen by Barbara Ferry Johnson (1975)

• Mayday by William Faulkner (1974)

• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck (1976)

• Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger (1978)

• The Three Damosels by Vera Chapman (1978)

• Gawain and The Green Knight by Y. R. Ponsor (1979)

• The Legend of King Arthur by Andrew Davies (1979)

• The Pendragon by Catherine Christian (1979)

1980-1989

• Guinevere (#1), The Chessboard Queen (#2), Guinevere Evermore (#3) by Sharan Newman (1980-1985)

• Firelord (#1), Beloved Exile (#2), The Lovers: Trystan and Yseult (#3) by Parke Godwin (pseudonym Kate Hawks) (1980-1999)

• Hawk of May (#1), Kingdom of Summer (#2), In Winter’s Shadow (#3) by Gillian Bradshaw (1980-1982)

• Port Eternity by C. J. Cherryh (1982)

• Idylls of The Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr (1982)

• Camelot 3000 (#1-12) by Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland (1982)

• Bride of the Spear by Kathleen Herbert (1982)

• Tales From the Mabinogion Gwyn Thomas, Kevin Crossley-Holland, and Margaret Jones (1982)

• Peronnik the Fool illustrated by Christiane Lesch (1984)

• Sir Gawain and The Loathly Lady by Selina Hastings and Juan Wijngaard (1985)

• The Book of Mordred (#1), The Last Knight of Albion (#2) by Peter Hanratty (1988-1989)

• Knight Life (#1), One Knight Only (#2), Fall of Knight (#3) by Peter David (1987-2006)

• Child of The Northern Spring (#1), Queen of The Summer Stars (#2), Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn (#3) by Persia Woolley (1987-1993)

• The Quest for Olwen by Gwyn Thomas, Kevin Crossley-Holland, and Margaret Jones (1988)

• The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf (1988)

• Invitation to Camelot edited by Parke Godwin (1988)

• Arthur, The Greatest King - An Anthology of Modern Arthurian Poems by Alan Lupack (1988)

• Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson (1988)

• Young Merlin (#1), Young Guinevere (#2), Young Lancelot (#3), Young Arthur (#4) by Robert D San Souci and Jamichael Henterly (1989-97)

1990-1999

• The King Arthur Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff (1990)

• The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff (1990)

• The Kitchen Knight by Margaret Hodges and Trina Schart Hyman (1990)

• Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson (1988)

• Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Selina Hastings and Juan Wijngaard (1991)

• The Camelot Chronicles edited by Mike Ashley (1992)

• The Tale of Taliesin by Gwyn Thomas, Kevin Crossley-Holland, and Margaret Jones (1992)

• Grails: Quest of the Dawn edited by Richard Gilliam (1992-1994)

• The Winter Prince by Elizabeth E. Wein (1993)

• The Winter King (#1), Enemy of God (#2), Excalibur (#3) by Bernard Cornwell (1995-1997)

• The Merlin Chronicles edited by Mike Ashley (1995)

• First Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick (1995)

• The Knight with The Lion by John Howe (1996)

• The Chronicles of the Holy Grail edited by Mike Ashley (1996)

• Blessed Bastard by Ruth P. M. Lehmann (1997)

• A Camelot Triptych by Norris J Lacy (1997)

• The Chronicles of the Round Table edited by Mike Ashley (1997)

• I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer (1998)

• The Squire’s Tale (#1), The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady (#2), The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf (#3), Parsifal’s Page (#4), The Ballad of Sir Dinadan (#5), The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight (#6), The Lioness and Her Knight (#7), The Quest of the Fair Unknown (#8), The Squire’s Quest (#9), The Legend of the King (#10) by Gerald Morris (1998-2010)

• Merlin edited by Martin H. Greenberg (1999)

2000-2009

• The Follies of Sir Harald by Phyllis Ann Karr (2001)

• Exiled From Camelot by Cherith Baldry (2001)

• The Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte Guest and Alan Lee (2002)

• Arthur the King by Allan Massie (2003)

• Lost But Found: The Missing Poems of C. S. Lewis edited by Don W. King (2004)

• Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman (2004)

• Arthur, King of Time and Space by Paul Gadzikowski (2004-14)

• In Camelot’s Shadow (#1), For Camelot’s Honor (#2), Camelot’s Sword/Banner (#3), By Camelot’s Blood (#4) by Sarah Zettel (2004-2012)

• Avalon High by Meg Cabot (2005)

• The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn (2005)

• Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg (2006)

• Lancelot (#1), Geraint (#2), Gawain (#3) by Gwen Rowley (2006-2007)

• Lancelot and The Lord of The Distant Isles by Patricia Terry, Samuel N. Rosenberg, and Judith Jaidinger (2007)

• Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve (2007)

• Perceval: King Arthur’s Knight of The Holy Grail by John Perkins and Gennady Spirin (2007)

• Tristan & Isolde: The Warrior and The Princess by Jeff Limke (2008)

• The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great (#1), The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short (#2), The Adventures of Sir Gawain the True (#3), The Adventures of Sir Balin the Ill-Fated (#4) by Gerald Morris (2008-2012)

2010-2019

• Muppets King Arthur by Paul Benjamin and Patrick Storick (2010)

• The Girl’s King Arthur by Barbara Tepa Lupack (2010)

• King Maker (#1), King’s Justice (#2), King’s War (#3) by Maurice Broaddus (2010-2012)

• Bedivere: The King’s Right Hand by Wayne Wise (2011)

• Sleepless Knights by Mark H. Williams (2013)

• Something About A Sword and a Stone? (#1), Morgan le Fay, Queen of Gore (#2), Sir Tristan is Just Awful (#3), Sir Galahad is Better Than You (#4), Guinevere, Best Nun Ever (#5) by Jeffrey Wikstrom (2014)

• Guinevere (#1), Morgan (#2), Morgawse (#3), Igraine (#4) by Lavinia Collins (2014-2018)

• The Winter Knight by Jes Battis (2019)

2020-2026

• Sword Stone Table edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

• Doctor Who: Legends of Camelot by Jacqueline Rayner (2021)

• Gawain by Paul Mclerran (2021)

• Arthurian Tales by Phyllis Ann Karr (2022)

• Spear by Nicola Griffith (2022)

• Morgan Is My Name (#1), Le Fay (#2) by Sophie Keetch (2023-ongoing)

• The Book of Gaheris by Kari Sperring (2023)

• Gawain: A Year to Live by W. Ryan Kaufman (2023)

• The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman (2024)

• The Last Knight of Camelot by Cherith Baldry (2024)

• The Moonlit Knight (#1) by L. R. Tourmaline (2025-ongoing)