Hope Mirrlees ~6 hr read

In the sober little country of Dorimare, respectable Master Nathaniel Chanticleer must confront the forbidden: fairy fruit is being smuggled across the border, and Fairyland will not be denied.

Hope Mirrlees's 1926 'Lud-in-the-Mist' is a beloved masterpiece of fantasy, a subtle, beautiful tale of the boundary between the mundane and the magical. Wise, lyrical, enchanting. Read it for one of the finest fantasy novels ever written, where sensible townsfolk find that Fairyland cannot be kept out forever.

In its time

Published in 1926, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).