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[rushthatspeaks]

Alan Garner, in describing the genesis of his novel Thursbitch, tells a ghost story. Sadly, this version does not have the photographs mentioned in the text.

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[roadrunnertwice]

This was excellent, thank you for linking it.

[cyphomandra]

Ooh. Thank you for linking to this - firstly, because I loved Thursbitch, and this is such a great (and creepy!) addition, and secondly because this post reminded me that my copy of Boneland showed up while I was moving, and I haven't read it yet. I have just spent the afternoon contentedly rereading The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath in preparation.

(although, in the spirit of things and places that haunt one - it's been over thirty years since I first read Weirdstone, and I still have to deliberately lift myself out of the book as a reading experience at the bit where the children and dwarfs make their final escape from the mines. Chunks of it are imprinted so indelibly on my mind from my first reading (especially the barely body wide shaft, and the hairpin bend) that I am reluctant to give them any more space in my head by immersing myself fully in the story)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I saw him give this talk at Cheltenham a few years ago. It was powerful.

A friend of mine used to do Thursbitch walks, and for a while he had a number of photos based on the book posted on the Web, but they seem to have disappeared now. Still, if you put 'Thursbitch' into Flickr you can see quite a few of the relevant sites. Here is John Turner's stone.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Eeek!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow. Now *that* is a well-told story.