
Lud-in-the-Mist
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Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid.Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his own daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his young son, he realises that somet...
Chapters (66)
- LUD-IN-THE-MIST
- HOPE MIRRLEES
- CHAPTER I
- MASTER NATHANIEL CHANTICLEER
- CHAPTER II
- THE DUKE WHO LAUGHED HIMSELF OFF A THRONE AND OTHER TRADITIONS OF DORIMARE
- CHAPTER III
- THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLE
- CHAPTER IV
- ENDYMION LEER PRESCRIBES FOR RANULPH
- CHAPTER V
- RANULPH GOES TO THE WIDOW GIBBERTY'S FARM
- CHAPTER VI
- THE WIND IN THE CRABAPPLE BLOSSOMS
- CHAPTER VII
- MASTER AMBROSE CHASES A WILD GOOSE AND HAS A VISION
- CHAPTER VIII
- ENDYMION LEER LOOKS FRIGHTENED, AND A BREACH IS MADE IN AN OLD FRIENDSHIP
- CHAPTER IX
- PANIC AND THE SILENT PEOPLE
- CHAPTER X
- HEMPIE'S SONG
- CHAPTER XI
- A STRONGER ANTIDOTE THAN REASON
- CHAPTER XII
- DAME MARIGOLD HEARS THE TAP OF A WOODPECKER
- CHAPTER XIII
- WHAT MASTER NATHANIEL AND MASTER AMBROSE FOUND IN THE GUILDHALL
- CHAPTER XIV
- DEAD IN THE EYE OF THE LAW
- CHAPTER XV
- "HO, HO, HOH!"
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE WIDOW GIBBERTY'S TRIAL
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE WORLD-IN-LAW
- CHAPTER XVIII
- MISTRESS IVY PEPPERCORN
- CHAPTER XIX
- THE BERRIES OF MERCIFUL DEATH
- CHAPTER XX
- WATCHING THE COWS
- CHAPTER XXI
- THE OLD GOATHERD
- CHAPTER XXII
- WHO IS PORTUNUS?
- CHAPTER XXIII
- THE NORTHERN FIRE-BOX AND DEAD MEN'S TALES
- CHAPTER XXIV
- BELLING THE CAT
- CHAPTER XXV
- THE LAW CROUCHES AND SPRINGS
- CHAPTER XXVI
- "NEITHER TREES NOR MEN"
- CHAPTER XXVII
- THE FAIR IN THE ELFIN MARCHES
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- "BY THE SUN, MOON AND STARS AND THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE WEST"
- CHAPTER XXIX
- A MESSAGE COMES TO HAZEL AND THE FIRST SWALLOW TO DAME MARIGOLD
- CHAPTER XXX
- MASTER AMBROSE KEEPS HIS VOW
- CHAPTER XXXI
- THE INITIATE
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CONCLUSION
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