kanders@lll-tis-a (07/30/85)
From: kanders@lll-tis-a (Kevin Anderson) re: BLACK CAULDRON review A couple of minor errors appeared in the review. Lloyd Alexander's "Prydain Cycle" consists of five books, not four: THE BOOK OF THREE, THE BLACK CAULDRON, THE CASTLE OF LLYR, TARAN WANDERER, and THE HIGH KING (the latter won the Newberry Award for best children's book in whatever year it appeared). The film "The Black Cauldron" has never purported to be based on all five books, but only the first two. While I thought the Horned King looked delightfully nasty, I was rather disappointed because (if I remember right from the books) the Horned King was merely an ambitious evil king who wore a deer skull with antlers, hence his name.