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The Devil's Piper
Four children in an English village meet a leprechaun who has been sleeping for two hundred years, and has just awakened to settle old scores with his pipe which has the power to raise the dead.
216 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1976
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December 12, 2025
I read this book as a child and it stuck with me as an anonymous shaper of the cosmology of my imagination, in the way certain books do if you read them at a formative time. Decades later I realised you can track these books down nowadays.
I was pleased to find it was worth the remembrance - properly alien faeries and much more folk horror than I thought child me had a taste for. I am truly astonished this was written by a 16 year old, it does not read like that at all.
that a later book of hers, the Ghost Drum, had also had a big imprint on me ( I never noticed author names at the time as I had no access to library or book store, I just read voraciously whatever paperbacks my father brought back from charity shop).
I wish the author was better known. Maybe my child will carry this one a bit further on.
I was pleased to find it was worth the remembrance - properly alien faeries and much more folk horror than I thought child me had a taste for. I am truly astonished this was written by a 16 year old, it does not read like that at all.
that a later book of hers, the Ghost Drum, had also had a big imprint on me ( I never noticed author names at the time as I had no access to library or book store, I just read voraciously whatever paperbacks my father brought back from charity shop).
I wish the author was better known. Maybe my child will carry this one a bit further on.
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