This set combines the Mythago Wood series (here in chronological order rather than publication order) and the Merlin Codex trilogy, a saga of the young Merlin and a fascinating combination of Greek and Celtic mythologies. Between them we have Merlin's Wood which links them both.
In The Hollowing we learn from the French researcher Lacan that there is a mythago wood in France:
"Ryhope Wood, the wood in France: they are the same wood, they share a common time, a common space, a dimension we cannot really see, the same shadows, the same dreams. We have no way of defining it, this imaginary time, this sylvan time. It’s beyond our language."
One of the best articles I have read on the Mythago series was written by Kevan Manwaring:
The Rogue Cartographies of Robert Holdstock’s
Mythago Wood Cycle
as a Cognitive Map for Creative Process in Fiction
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