Warning: contains plot references to The Day of the Triffids, Chocky and The Midwich Cuckoos
Novelist John Wyndham’s genius lay in seeding menace among innocence. In The Day of the Triffids, the narrator drives through a bucolic country village but is unable to admire its delightful cottage gardens – partly because the world has ended, but also because the picture-postcard borders contain intruders: tall, swaying carnivorous plants with leathery green leaves and poison whips waiting to sting human flesh. Thus Wyndham turns that most pleasant and English of things, a flowerbed, into a deadly trap.
In Wyndham’s final novel Chocky, the threat arrives in the charmingly eccentric form of a child’s imaginary friend. In The Midwich Cuckoos, the unsettling element takes the shape of a cherubic, blonde-haired baby – or rather, 61 identical blonde babies foisted unexpectedly upon the women of Midwich after a village-wide blackout nine months earlier. In these stories,...
Novelist John Wyndham’s genius lay in seeding menace among innocence. In The Day of the Triffids, the narrator drives through a bucolic country village but is unable to admire its delightful cottage gardens – partly because the world has ended, but also because the picture-postcard borders contain intruders: tall, swaying carnivorous plants with leathery green leaves and poison whips waiting to sting human flesh. Thus Wyndham turns that most pleasant and English of things, a flowerbed, into a deadly trap.
In Wyndham’s final novel Chocky, the threat arrives in the charmingly eccentric form of a child’s imaginary friend. In The Midwich Cuckoos, the unsettling element takes the shape of a cherubic, blonde-haired baby – or rather, 61 identical blonde babies foisted unexpectedly upon the women of Midwich after a village-wide blackout nine months earlier. In these stories,...
- 2.6.2022
- von Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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