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Post by helrunar on Dec 16, 2022 3:08:00 GMT
By the way, if you're interested in the White Horse of Uffington, Rosemary Sutcliff's young adult novel Sun Horse, Moon Horse is well worth tracking down. Like her Arthur novel, Sword at Sunset (which is excellent), this appears to have been work written at least somewhat in a trance state.
Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 16, 2022 7:29:14 GMT
Isn't the Uffington White Horse wonderful. Because it is so old it sits on its hill outside of recorded time itself. All those people down through the ages scouring it so it survived them, doing it for over 3,000 years, isn't that incredible? What stories do you know that involve hill figures? Perhaps they are real, like the White Horse, or imagined. Why don't you share with us these strange tales. There are several novels which feature them - the one I've read most recently is The Green Manās Challenge by Juliet E. McKenna. itās the fourth in her series of books with āGreen Manā in the title. I very much enjoyed it. Another good one is John Gordonās The Giant Under the Snow. But at the moment (and Iām worried that youāve been reading my mind - I was planning to ask your question myself here at some point!), Iām on the hunt for short genre stories involving them - for a possible future project. So far Iāve only got three: M.R. Jamesās āAn Eveningās Entertainmentā (the figure in that is based on the Cerne Giant), Mike Chinnās āAll I Ever Seeā in the recent Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (centred around the Uffington White Horse), and Steve Duffyās wonderful āFigures on a Hillsideā in The Night Comes On (inspired by Lethbridgeās work in the Gogmagog Hills). Steveās story has long been a favourite of mine and Iām quite surprised that itās never been reprinted. By the way, some of my ancestors lived in the Vale of the White Horse, so hill figures are kind of in my blood! Rosemary Pardoe - The Old Man on the Hill: English Hill Figures in Supernatural Fiction (Haunted Library, Nov. 2022) ļ»æ Front cover: Jim PittsBack: Richard Doyle (from Thomas Hughes' The Scouring of the White Horse, 1859. Scanned image by George P. Landow for The Victorian Web. Rosemary Pardoe - The Old Man on the Hill: English Hill Figures in Supernatural Fiction SourcesFictional examples cited in Ro's booklet are; Short Stories: M.R. James - An Evening's Entertainment ( A Warning to the Curious, 1925) R.B. Russell - The Pharisees' Glass: (Roger Dobson & Mark Valentine [eds,], Aklo # 5, Autumn 1992) Scott Thomas - Vale of the White Horse: ( Cobwebs and Whispers, 2001: Vale of the White Horse and Other Strange British Tales, 2021). Thana Niveau - The Scouring (Paul Finch [ed.] - Terror Tales of the Cotswolds, 2012) Stewart Lee - A View from a Hill: A Christmas Ghost Story: ( New Statesman, Dec. 2012) Colin Insole - The Madness of a Chalk Giant: ( Elegies & Requiems, 2013) H.E. Bulstrode - The Rude Woman of Cerne: (self-published 2016; reprinted in Uncanny Tales from the English Shires, self-published 2018) Katherine Haynes - Chalk: ( Waiting in the Shadows, Sarob Press 2018) Mike Chinn - All I Ever See: (Stephen Jones [ed.], The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror, 2021) Steve Duffy, "Figures on a Hillside" (The Night Comes On, Ash-Tree Press 1998) Novels Richard Garnett, The White Dragon. (Rupert Hart-Davis 1963) John Gordon - The Giant Under the Snow. (Orion Books 1968) Juliet E. McKenna - The Green Man's Challenge: (Wizard's Tower Press 2021) Marcus Sedgwick, Witch Hill: (Orion Books 2001)
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Post by helrunar on Dec 16, 2022 17:01:02 GMT
I assume The Old Man on the Hill is OP. If not, is there somewhere I could buy a copy? (Not holding my breath)
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem bones on Dec 17, 2022 12:35:12 GMT
I assume The Old Man on the Hill is OP. If not, is there somewhere I could buy a copy? (Not holding my breath) cheers, Hel Best person to ask would be; markl.valentine ATbtinternet.com
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Feb 3, 2023 11:40:37 GMT
The White Horse - Rebecca Harrison 204 pages Paperback Published January 3, 2023 by Spooky House Press ISBN 9781959946007 Blurb: Born a peasant, raised a Lady, Charlotte does not know which she is, but she does know what she wants to be: a great composer. Her talent is remarkable, but when she turns eighteen, her dead father's wife sells her piano and throws her out. Charlotte becomes a governess in a gothic mansion, where a handsome and mysterious widower grieves his dead wife. The mansion looks upon the White Horse of Uffington where Charlotte had a strange vision as a child. A haunted place of folktales and fog and memories. Memories of wives who died young, generation after generation. ļ»æAnd a White Lady who haunts the mist. Has all the elements you expect in a Gothic Romance.
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Post by Swampirella on Feb 3, 2023 12:29:04 GMT
The White Horse - Rebecca Harrison 204 pages Paperback Published January 3, 2023 by Spooky House Press ISBN 9781959946007 Blurb: Born a peasant, raised a Lady, Charlotte does not know which she is, but she does know what she wants to be: a great composer. Her talent is remarkable, but when she turns eighteen, her dead father's wife sells her piano and throws her out. Charlotte becomes a governess in a gothic mansion, where a handsome and mysterious widower grieves his dead wife. The mansion looks upon the White Horse of Uffington where Charlotte had a strange vision as a child. A haunted place of folktales and fog and memories. Memories of wives who died young, generation after generation. ļ»æAnd a White Lady who haunts the mist. Has all the elements you expect in a Gothic Romance. Except the cover features a woman standing peacefully still instead of fearfully running from a looming castle or manor house, possibly with a devilishly (but foreboding) man (on horseback) in the background as well. The White Horse of Uffington, while endearing, just doesn't cut it.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 12, 2023 14:45:03 GMT
This is a plan of Lethbridge's Gogmagog Hill figures in all their glory. I don't believe it, but it's a wonderful dream.
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Post by helrunar on May 12, 2023 18:22:21 GMT
Clea (that name always makes me think of L. Durrell's Alexandria Quartet), You might find interesting this rather dirge-like, but poignant, Pagan hymn by the late Leigh Ann Hussey, "The White Mare": motogrrl.nithaus.org/Bands/LAH/PC/02_PC_WhiteMare.mp3The description of the Mare is reminiscent of the Mari Lwyd and related folk traditions. Hel.
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