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Post by Middoth on Sept 6, 2021 10:55:48 GMT
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Post by humgoo on Mar 25, 2022 11:36:48 GMT
Margery Lawrence - Saloozy (1959; Small Shadows Creep, Puffin, 1979): An early adventure of super occult detective Miles Pennoyer, who goes to Tanfield to visit his newly-widowed sister Clare, who's gotten one of those too cheap-too big-to be true houses, "Wichart's Farm". There's no catch as far as she can find out, or at least no one in the village talks about it in her presence. Just one thing: the long attic somehow gives her the creeps despite the sunlight that floods it daily. And why does her six-year-old son Michael keep pretending to talk to someone whom he calls "Saloozy"? He doesn't seem to be one of those imaginative kids. And why does he ask Uncle Miles to teach him Latin and why such sudden interest in chemistry? Things come to a head when Mike, who's become quite the impossible kid lately (using Nanny's saucepan to boil herbal stuff etc), uses incantations to make a girl who dares to say magic doesn't exist walk into a pond during a birthday party. Dr. Pennoyer knows that whatever power Mike's been apprenticing with needs to be dealt with immediately.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 25, 2022 17:14:01 GMT
Thanks for that interesting note about the Pennoyer story from Margery Lawrence! I have the 1940s collection of Miles Pennoyer tales (a friend gave me one as a Yule present several years ago), but don't recall hearing about "Saloozy." Sounds interesting. Also interesting to learn that Lawrence was part of some kind of Spiritualism working circle. I observed in the book my friend gave me that she had had some kind of occult training, as had Algernon Blackwood.
cheers, Hel
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