When he was a boy, he found an old harp in the attic. The novel concerns Master Nathaniel Chanticleer. According to the Law, it doesn’t exist, despite the fact that it was consumed with regularity before Duke Aubrey’s overthrow.Ĭover of the 1978 edition, art by Michael Herring. Indeed, even mentioning fairy fruit is illegal. Since the time of the revolution, all traffic with the inhabitants of Fairy is forbidden. He was also known for acts of extreme generosity. (They were successful.) But he wasn’t all bad, either. He had a bet going with another man that they could drive the court jester to suicide. Then, during the reign of Duke Aubrey, the merchants rose up and overthrew him. Until 200 hundred years ago, relations between Dorimare and Fairy were good.

The Dapple, on the other hand, has its source beyond the Debatable Hills in the land of Fairy. The Dawl is the largest river in Dorimare. It is situated at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. Lud-in-the-Mist is the capital of the small country of Dorimare. The story takes place in a country based on both England and the Low Countries. (She died in 1978.) It’s questionable how much effort he put into locating her, since by that time the book was in the public domain. At the time, Carter says, he didn’t know if Ms. Carter was immediately impressed and wanted to include Lud-in-the-Mist in the BAF series. The friend had a copy, which he loaned to Carter. More on that later.Ĭarter tells the story in his introduction that he had never heard of the book when a friend recommended it to him. After this book was published, she stopped writing. The third and final novel by Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist was her only fantasy. One of Lin Carter’s greatest achievements as editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, in my opinion, was rescuing Lud-in-the-Mist from obscurity.

Lud in the mist by hope mirrlees