Sarban's preoccupation with the remote brooding past which, in certain circumstances, refuses to die, but jealously invades the present through the life and sanity of just such a healthy young animal as the heroine of Ringstones. Read MoreOffer Count: 7. · Personally, I think Ringstones is easily the finest of Sarban's works; his most well-known, the debut 'if the nazis won the war' novel The Sound of His Horn is my opinion his weakest, although the offbeat fetishistic elements and weird undertones it contains makes it well worth reading as well, but The Doll Maker is the stronger follow-up to Ringstones, with a serious de la Mare/proto . · Ringstones is a dark fantasy that takes place in a desolate English countryside at a remote manor called Ringstones after the local stone circle. Daphne Hazel becomes a summer governess to three children who seem unworldly and fay/5(2).
John William Wall ( - ), writing under the pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diplomat. Ringstones is a dark fantasy that takes place in a desolate English countryside at a remote manor called Ringstones after the local stone circle. Daphne Hazel becomes a summer governess to three children who seem unworldly and fay. Ringstones and Other Curious Tales. by. Sarban (Pseudonym), John William Wall. · Rating details · 71 ratings · 9 reviews. Sewn hardback printed and bound by Antony Rowe in yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper,with yellow and black head and tailband and yellow silk ribbon marker. numbered copies. Up until here were your options. Option 1: Track down one of the tattered Ballantine copies of Sarban's three core works (Ringstones, The Sound of His Horn, and The Doll Maker) at prices that are usually reserved for regular hardback novels (about an average of thirty bucks) and sometimes up to three times that amount.
Personally, I think Ringstones is easily the finest of Sarban's works; his most well-known, the debut 'if the nazis won the war' novel The Sound of His Horn is my opinion his weakest, although the offbeat fetishistic elements and weird undertones it contains makes it well worth reading as well, but The Doll Maker is the stronger follow-up to Ringstones, with a serious de la Mare/proto-Aickman sort of atmosphere. Really, everything Sarban wrote should be zealously sought out by admirers of. John William Wall (6 November – 11 April ), pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diplomat. Wall's diplomatic career lasted more than thirty years, but his writing career as Sarban was brief and not prolific, ending during the early s. Sarban is described in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy as "a subtle, literate teller of tales. At the remote English manor house known as Ringstones (named after a local Celtic stone circle), young Daphne Hazel becomes governess to three unusual children. The three seem uncanny and otherworldly, and only slowly does Daphne realize that all is not well at Ringstones.
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