Lud In The Mist

"The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... a little golden miracle of a book."--Neal Gaiman. Hope Mirrlees penned "Lud-in-the-Mist"--a classic fantasy, and her only fantasy novel--in 1926. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects. Mirrlees was a close friend of such literary lights as Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Katharine Mansfield, Bertrand Russell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and W. B. Yeats. Her 1926 classic fantasy Lud-in-the-Mist has inspired the likes of Neil Gaiman, Mary Gentle, Elizabeth Hand, Johanna Russ, and Tim Powers. Hope Mirrlees' writing, usually under-rated, moves between gently crazy humour, poetic snatches, real menace, and real poignancy.