Lud-in-the-Mist

by Hope Mirrlees

Overview

Living next to the magical land of Faerie is complicated, as the inhabitants of Lud-in-the-Mist know all too well. As a result, Lud-in-the-Mist is an extremely practical and prosaic country, where any mention of Faerie, the fae, or fairy-fruit is taboo. But when it appears someone has begun smuggling fairy-fruit into Lud-in-the-Mist—resulting in bewitched children disappearing into Faerie—Lud-in-the-Mist’s mayor, the respectable Nathaniel Chanticleer, sets off on a mission to rescue his home and his children.

This is a forgotten classic that is perfect for readers of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357392419
Publisher:	Alpha Editions
Publication date:	06/20/2023
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978) was a British modernist and member of the famed Bloomsbury Group. Described by Virginia Woolf as “capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed,” Mirrlees was friends with T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein, and was the partner of well-regarded classicist Jane Ellen Harrison. Mirrlees published only three novels in her lifetime, the most famous of which is the increasingly influential Lud-in-the-Mist. 

Table of Contents

I. Master Nathaniel Chanticleer
II. The Duke Who Laughed Himself Off a Throne and Other Traditions of Dorimare
III. The Beginning of Trouble
IV. Endymion Leer Prescribes for Ranulph
V. Ranulph Goes to the Widow Gibberty's Farm
VI. The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms
VII. Master Ambrose Honeysuckle Chases a Wild Goose and Has a Vision
VIII. Endymion Leer Looks Frightened, and a Breach Is Made in an Old Friendship
IX. Panic and the Silent People
X. Hempie's Song
XI. A Stronger Antidote than Reason
XII. Dame Marigold Hears the Tap of a Woodpecker
XIII. What Master Nathaniel and Master Ambrose Found in the Guildhall
XIV. Dead in the Eye of the Law
XV. "Ho, Ho, Hoh!"
XVI. The Widow Gibberty's Trial
XVII. The World-in-Law
XVIII. Mistress Ivy Peppercorn
XIX. The Berries of Merciful Death
XX. Watching the Cows
XXI. The Old Goatherd
XXII. Who Is Portunus?
XXIII. The Northern Fire-Box and Dead Men's Tales
XXIV. Belling the Cat
XXV. The Law Crouches and Springs
XXVI. "Neither Trees Nor Men"
XXVII. The Fair in the Elfin Marches
XXVIII. "By the Sun, Moon and Stars and the Golden Apples of the West"
XXIX. A Message Comes to Hazel and the First Swallow to Dame Marigold
XXX. Master Ambrose Keeps His Vow
XXXI. The Initiate
XXXII. Conclusion
 

Editorial Reviews

The single most beautiful and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century.”

#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman