The Wicked Day
core novel 1983 The Merlin Trilogy
Record
| First published | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (12,114 ratings, collected 2026-09-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780340322376 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Mordred, lost in youth and raised by fisherfolk before reuniting with his mother Morgause, is portrayed as a pawn of fate rather than a villain as his relationship with his father King Arthur unfolds after Merlin's departure.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Merlin Trilogy
- Series: The Merlin Trilogy core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mary Stewart
Notes
- From the series record (The Merlin Trilogy): Widely known by the title "trilogy" for its first three, Merlin-narrated novels (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment); The Wicked Day is a fourth novel in the same continuity, retelling the same events from Mordred's point of view, and is registered here as Core Canon alongside the original three rather than left out, since it completes the same single continuous story. A later, more loosely connected novel, The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995), is set in the same world but is not part of Merlin's own narrative and is left out of this admission.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Merlin Trilogy: position 4 of 4: previous The Last Enchantment (1979)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
- Wikipedia: The Crystal Cave
- Wikipedia: The Last Enchantment
- Wikipedia: The Hollow Hills
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicked_Day
- Wikipedia
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