You up for some epic fantasy that somehow moves faster and slower than The Lord of the Rings? You up for an allegory where Pride is an ogre, Deception is a woman in makeup, and Queen Elizabeth is an elf? Edmund Spenser spins a tale of conflicted knights in a dark world, filled with Soulsborne-esque monsters.

Sources

Edmund Spenser, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Andrew Hadfield

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (Penguin)