In 1997 Thorsons published Essential Celtic Mythology , a re-telling by Lindsay Clarke of several important Irish and Welsh myths, along with an introductory essay on ancient Celtic culture and the relevance of its stories for our own time. This book (originally commissioned as part of series on world mythology by various authors called ‘Stories That Change The World’) was republished as Lindsay Clarke’s Traditional Celtic Stories in 1999.

In her review for Resurgence, Jules Cashford (co-author of The Myth of the Goddess) wrote: ‘Lindsay Clarke’s book is an inspiration because of the way it is written: the characters sparkle: their remarkable adventures are instantly inevitable. No word juts out of place: each sentence is irreducibly particular, finished and refined to a poetic precision, the language transparent to its source in the Imagination…the result is a book in which reconciliation and renewal become possible through the stories themselves… His fourteen page introduction is worth having on its own, so vividly does he explain and evoke the culture of the Celts, and so eloquently does he call for stories "that seek out values larger than merely tribal loyalties"’