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Hope Mirrlees: Lud-In-The-Mist (Paperback, 2005, Cold Spring Press) No rating

Lud was a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers, …

Importing some books from J.G Keely's suggested readings in fantasy.

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Takes the brief but powerful vision of Rosetti's Goblin Market and runs with it. Written in lovely, transfixing language, lilting into little paradoxes and touching upon those strange moments in life which are so hard to capture in words. I've said before that there are no other writers I can compare to Peake, but there are bits in this story that evoke some of Peake's strangeness. The descriptions and asides scintillate--but the characters, dialogue, and plot are more usual, and less wondrous. As it transforms more into a procedural mystery story, it loses much of its impetus, but as a whole, the tone is charming and queer.