THE LOST TALES OF SIR GALAHAD

Not all of the damsels in this audiobook are in distress. One of them needs Galahad only to lend her a sword. Aside from that, these "rediscovered" tales hew pretty closely to the style and tone of medieval Arthuriana. A lot of the humor comes from the puckish introduction and footnotes, which treat the tales as serious historical documents. Narrator Simon Vance does his usual masterful job, drawing on a range of accents and voices to convey a proper archaic tone without betraying modern ideas of how characters should behave and sound. It's a difficult distinction, especially since Galahad, in some of these stories, comes across as a prig, a naïf, or a twit. But Vance and the authors provide a great deal of fun. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2025]