The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale

Synopsis

First in the four-volume "Incredible Tale sequence of thematically linked stories [...] all transfiguring their New England settings into venues subtly irradiated by a sense of the immanence of Faerie . In the first, a man comes to farm near a mysterious plantation called "The Enchanted", which proves to be a Polder , and the bride he weds proves to have undergone Metamorphosis from a Bird ." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy , Coatsworth biography by John Clute