I've heard that too, but if that's the case, I just ... I REALLY want to know what she thought that story was going to turn out to be when she started writing it. Was she, too, surprised by the sudden appearance of King Arthur?!

Ha! TRUE. The thing about Fire and Hemlock is that it almost seems like it's going to make sense, until the end, at which point everything reveals itself to have been poetry logic and not logic logic ALL ALONG.