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Thistlebone Book Three: The Dule Tree
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June 7, 2025
"Dule tree means 'grief tree', so named because thirteen innocent women and one man were hung in a single day from the branches of that oak.
"the nooses were tied so badly that the hanging victims choked slowly. Their sounds made the villagers think they were being cursed...
It's rather unsettling, isn't it, what beliefs can make people do?"
Set in a rural Village in Northern England, it is steeped in local myths and legends. After Seema's journalistic investigation revealed the truth behind the kidnappings and that Malcolm Kinniburgh, the local eccentric, was intrinsically tied to the events in Harrowvale and the Hillman cult, the police have moved in to tie up the loose ends.
In Malcolm's house they discover to a failed horror film, The Dule Tree, which again is tied to past events in Harrowvale, telling the story of witch-trials and their inevitable outcome.
This volume tells the story of the film and disasters which stuck to eventually halt production, leading to it never seeing the light of day.
The blurb on the back of the book states this is the final installment of Thistlebone, which is somewhat disappointing as there are a lot of loose threats which have not been tied up. Due to this I am knocking the score down to 4 stars.
"the nooses were tied so badly that the hanging victims choked slowly. Their sounds made the villagers think they were being cursed...
It's rather unsettling, isn't it, what beliefs can make people do?"
Set in a rural Village in Northern England, it is steeped in local myths and legends. After Seema's journalistic investigation revealed the truth behind the kidnappings and that Malcolm Kinniburgh, the local eccentric, was intrinsically tied to the events in Harrowvale and the Hillman cult, the police have moved in to tie up the loose ends.
In Malcolm's house they discover to a failed horror film, The Dule Tree, which again is tied to past events in Harrowvale, telling the story of witch-trials and their inevitable outcome.
This volume tells the story of the film and disasters which stuck to eventually halt production, leading to it never seeing the light of day.
The blurb on the back of the book states this is the final installment of Thistlebone, which is somewhat disappointing as there are a lot of loose threats which have not been tied up. Due to this I am knocking the score down to 4 stars.
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April 20, 2025Thistlebone remains more satisfactory than 2000AD's other attempts to board the folk horror bandwagon, but still not super-distinctive. And this third volume didn't exactly help matters by going meta and digging into the filming of a vaguely Wicker Man/Amicus production during the original folk horror moment which, wouldn't you know it, stirs up local enmity and worse. The Peter Wyngarde-styled writer was quite fun, though.
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