To Ellen Datlow, with love and gratitude for 27 years of friendship, acute editorial insight, and doll heads
Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre,
Thrice sit thou mute in this inchanted chayre;
Then thrice three times tye up this true loves knot,
And murmur soft, shee will, or shee will not.
Goe burn these poys’nous weedes in yon blew fire,
These Screech-owles fethers, and this prickling bryer,
This Cypresse gathered at a dead mans grave:
That all thy feares and cares an end may have.
Then come, you Fayries, dance with me a round,
Melt her hard heart with your melodious sound.
In vaine are all the charmes I can devise:
She hath an Arte to breake them with her eyes.
Tom Haring: Producer, Moonthunder Records; Windhollow Faire’s Manager
Windhollow Faire:
Lesley Stansall: Lead singer/songwriter
Ashton Moorehouse: Bassist
Jonathan Redheim: Drums, percussion
William Fogerty: Rhythm guitar, fiddle, mandolin
Julian Blake (deceased): Singer/songwriter, lead guitar
Patricia Kenyon: Journalist/Music critic
Nancy O’Neill: Professional psychic
Billy Thomas: Photographer, estate agent