264 pages
English language
Published June 30, 1989 by Berkley.
This story made me wonder if the writer had a lot going on in his private life at the time, and it seeped through into the story. Not in a good way though :-(
I bought this from the second hand bookshop on Rochester Row, near Victoria Station. It’s an odd little Fantasy about Theophilus Escargot who lives in Twombly Town, a kind of idealised English small town of the end of the 19th century (with magic). He has a fondness for pies which leads him to conflict with a Fog Dwarf who wants to awaken the ancient Stone Giants, so huge and ancient they now form part of the landscape, and to so destroy the human world. There are knowing echoes such as the submarine which sounds very like Nemo’s ‘Nautilus’ (complete with organ-playing captain), and a passing reference to the poems of Ashbless (who is a major character in Powers’s The Anubis Gates, and originated as a pseudonym for poems published by Blaylock and Powers while at college).
I bought this from the second hand bookshop on Rochester Row, near Victoria Station. It’s an odd little Fantasy about Theophilus Escargot who lives in Twombly Town, a kind of idealised English small town of the end of the 19th century (with magic). He has a fondness for pies which leads him to conflict with a Fog Dwarf who wants to awaken the ancient Stone Giants, so huge and ancient they now form part of the landscape, and to so destroy the human world. There are knowing echoes such as the submarine which sounds very like Nemo’s ‘Nautilus’ (complete with organ-playing captain), and a passing reference to the poems of Ashbless (who is a major character in Powers’s The Anubis Gates, and originated as a pseudonym for poems published by Blaylock and Powers while at college).
