The Magic Cottage

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Session musician Mike Stringer and illustrator Midge Gudgeon move from London to Gramarye, a somewhat dilapidated but idyllically peaceful cottage in rural Hampshire, previously occupied by the recently deceased, eccentric but highly regarded Flora Chaldean. when the horror hits... to put it bluntly: i was not scared. instead, i gave birth to sighs, many of them. sad to say, there was a lot more 'horror' in the atmosphere itself. perhaps i just have a problem with cheap horror thrills, especially of the kind that i've read dozens upon dozens of times previously. so quite a bit of fun to be had in the foreboding quality of the cottage in question, some hairs were definitely raised... but when the book tries to get me to jump, all i did was yawn. I will start by saying that I have been reading this whilst staying in a remote cottage in the woods during an early Easter break, which certainly helped me getting the atmosphere right. It started slow, but I like that as it was primarily the atmosphere I wanted to revel in. A few things hit me that I wouldn't have noticed the first time around. The most prominent one is the slight feeling of unease that lingered all around due to the fact that both protagonists are portrayed as much younger than the early 30's they are supposed to be. They both often act and speak as children, certainly Midge, and she is often referred to as a child-like wife, a pixie that needs to be protected. I found this unsettling at times, but not to the point to stop reading. Godhood Seeker: Mycroft’s desire to tap the magic leyline of Gramarye is driven by the unadulterated power it would give him. Mike and Midge are young, professional and in love. Their artistic talents allow them to consider moving to the countryside to work from home. While looking for their ideal love nest, Midge is overcome with a passion to buy Grameri, a dilapidated cottage in the middle of nowhere whose former owner, the local healer, has recently died.

Empathic Environment: Gramarye's manifestations seem to respond both to benevolence and malignancy. Sentient Cosmic Force: The universe is explained to be driven and shaped by emotion, "the creative energy that bred with itself, the source of everything." The series was produced by Pat's real-life husband Hal Cooper (February 23, 1923 - April 11, 2014 [2]). Pat and Hal married on December 21, 1944, had two children—Bethami (b. August 16, 1954) and Pamela—and divorced in 1970. [3] The Magic Cottage was a spinoff of their Your Television Babysitter which aired in daytime 8:30 to 9 a.m. ET Monday through Friday on DuMont beginning November 1, 1948. However, The Magic Cottage was aimed at slightly older children who had just entered school, and aired on weekday evenings from 6:30 to 7 p.m. ET. [3] Starfish Aliens: Possibly - in a glimpse of deep space offered by Mycroft's channelling of cosmic energy, Mike and Midge see, amidst the hinted stars and planets, "shapes that were sometimes human and sometimes vast expanses of protoplasmic masses, a coagulation of life forms." David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6

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We are passionate about Monmouthshire and the amazing people and places within it. We want to promote this amazing county to the people who live in Monmouthshire and show the rest of the World what is great about it. In the Synergist Temple's darkened Pyramid Room, a spotlit Mycroft, when drawing cosmic energy, acquires an uncanny lucidity. His head then seems to briefly flare a "spectrum aura radiating outwards, expanding until the triangular room was filled with its variegation." What happened to us there was horrendous beyond belief. The miracles, the healings, the crazy sect who wanted our home for themselves, the hideous creatures that crawled from the nether regions, and the bats - oh God, the bats! Even now those horrible things seem impossible to me. Yet they happened...

Healing Hands: Flora was a renowned healer. Mycroft and the Synergists demonstrate such skill on Mike although the healing is really enabled by the magic of Gramarye. Genius Loci: Seemingly by absorbing the essence of its occupants via its position on a location of the earth which exudes " ethereal vitality", Gramarye can physically alter itself.

The Magic Cottage by James Herbert

healings, the crazy sect who wanted our home for themselves, the hideous creatures that crawled from the nether regions, and the bats - oh God, the bats! Even now those In Harmony with Nature: The cottage somehow soothes local wildlife to remarkable tameness, and has the power to heal them. Mike and Midge's sex life is enhanced as well, probably because sex is often symbolic of being "more natural", returning to our base instincts, etc. Although suffering the same fate as so many series of its era—virtually all the episodes are lost, a kinescope of one episode is held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, with another (dating from December 28, 1950) held by the Paley Center for Media. An additional episode may survive as part of the Peabody Award collection. [6] See also [ edit ]