![]() They are greeted by a bright-eyed little man who turns out to be the good magician Borrobil. After Jean impulsively leaps through the flames, the children are transported back into ancient magical times. When the children enter the wood they see two bonfires burning at the entrance to a circle of nine standing stones. Most people avoid this wood but Donald and Jean decide to visit it one moonlit night in the hope of seeing something magical. ![]() They are fascinated by the Eldritch Wood – `a dark mysterious ring on the crest of the far-off hill’. None of Croft Dickinson’s fiction seems to be available online but it certainly should be.ĭonald and Jean are a young brother and sister spending a holiday in the British countryside. Very cheap copies of this edition are quite easy to find. It was reissued as a Puffin paperback in 1964 with a wonderful cover by Pauline Baynes. “Borrobil” was first published in 1944 with black and white illustrations by John Morton-Sale. ![]() Professor Croft Dickinson was a renowned expert on Scottish history who also wrote ghost stories and Fantasy novels for children. ![]() “Borrobil” by William Croft Dickinson is a kind of `missing link’ in British Fantasy. As we are now into May, I’ve decided to recommend an almost forgotten story which begins on May Eve, traditionally the most magical night of the year. ![]()
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