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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 11, 2015, 18:05
Excellent piece.

Garner and more especially Cooper (whose Dark Is Rising sequence is still my favourite book of all) imprinted that sense of the possibility of time bleeding through to the present in me at an early age. I'm sure my fondness for upland Wales is at least partly due to The Grey King, set in an often gloomy October around the slopes of Cadair Idris.

I'd probably add Watership Down to that, a meticulous depiction of quintessential English countryside and its wildlife, where evil can still be found (the gassings at the original burrow, the burrow with the snares, Efrafa and General Woundwort).

Classic Doctor Who played on that too, particularly the stories set on rural or semi-rural Earth locations.

I've never read any MR James but really should.
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