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The Autumn Castle is a 2003 horror/fantasy novel by Kim Wilkins. It follows the story of Christine Starlight who has strong memories of her childhood friend, Mayfridh. Mayfridh was then abducted by the king and queen of a Germanic faeryland and is now on the throne of the Autumn Castle. Now the human and faery worlds have joined with Mayfridh falling in love with Christine's partner and Christine venturing to the faery world.[1]
The Autumn Castle was first published in Australia in April 2003 by Voyager in trade paperback format.[2] It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States in both hardback and paperback formats in 2004 and 2005.[3] It was re-released in Australis in mass market paperback in 2004 and then as an audio edition in 2005 by Bolinda Publishing.[3] The Autumn Castle was a short-list nominee for the 2003 Aurealis Award for best horror novel but lost to Victor Kelleher's Born of the Sea.[4]
Author Kim Wilkins spins an enchanting tale of modern magic in The Autumn Castle, where fairy tales meet the real word of Berlin, Germany. Wilkins writes in the tradition of Charles de Lint and Neil Gaiman a page-turner about a woman named Christine Starlight who lives in a world of pain - until she discovers another world where pain does not exist. But magic does.
The Autumn Castle weaves a vivid web of two worlds intersecting, falling short only with some rather stilted dialog that seems a little too formal at times, but Wilkins
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