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Long lankin by lindsey barraclough6/30/2023 ![]() Things become even more oppressive - warnings scrawled on walls, disembodied voices singing, apparitions - and it's clear that Mimi is in great danger. And in so doing, she reawakes that dormant evil. So when Cora meets and makes friends with Roger, a boy from the village, she does what all children do when something is forbidden with no explanation - she breaks the rules. She forbids the girls from visiting the old church nearby and she orders them about obsessively. ![]() ![]() She insists that all the doors in the house are kept locked and the windows closed at all times, even when it's swelteringly hot. They don't know it - Auntie Ida does, though - but Long Lankin is attracted to young children.īut it's clear to Cora that something isn't right from the very beginning. It's post-war Britain and when Cora's mother suffers a breakdown, she and her younger sister Mimi are sent to stay with their Auntie Ida in the manor house there. In this story, he lives out in East Anglia in the marshes outside the village of Bryers Guerdon. Long Lankin is a folk ballad about a bogeyman that lives on the edge of society in wild, desolate places and preys upon children. The doors were all bolted and the windows all pinned, Except one little window where Long Lankin crept in. ![]() ![]() Let the doors all be bolted and the windows all pinned, And leave not a hole for a mouse to creep in. Summary: Truly creepy and truly literary period thriller set in post-war Britain and based on the folk ballad about the bogeyman Long Lankin. ![]()
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