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Daniel Morden illustrated by Brett Breckon
Dark Tales From the Woods
Pont (120 pages) 9781843235835
Woods? Forests really - ominous, dim, drear, with pervading damp vegetation and threatening, looming tree-trunks - dark certainly. In fact, the title is a reference to the source of these tales, Abram Woods, a gypsy storyteller of a couple of centuries past, travelling round and about Wales and elsewhere. The author, himself an experienced oral storyteller, has extended and supplemented the fragmentary elements which have come down to us from Woods with adaptations from the Grimms. The stories given here, and wonderfully illustrated by Brett Breckon, are a gripping opposite to the washed-out cosiness of many cartoon film interpretations. Here are dark deeds, dark intentions and dark magic. Wholly involving reading.