The Dark Is Rising – In production
Susan Cooper’s extraordinary children’s books are being brought to the big screen. Christopher Eccleston is signed on so far…
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Tigerlili Cavill
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Susan Cooper’s extraordinary children’s books are being brought to the big screen. Christopher Eccleston is signed on so far…
Brits, and 
Jenny are discussing.
Jenny 9:43 pm on April 21, 2007 Permalink |
Oh my god, I used to read those, they’re so scary. And hard to understand sometimes. There were lots of “selkie” women with patterns on their hands, and funny things like horse shoes they had to collect. Um, weren’t there? There’s a package winging its way across (insert correct ocean’s name here) to you, by the way. xxx
Tigerlili Cavill 10:15 pm on April 23, 2007 Permalink |
Yes there were… it was really creepy stuff that got into your bones. Arthurian myths, symbolism, light and dark… it’s all the good stuff in there.
Selkie woman = Beautiful Juliette, I reckon.
Brits 8:29 pm on May 11, 2007 Permalink |
Well, there were certainly no selkie women in The Dark Is Rising. I know there might have been one in Seaward, and Susan Cooper did write a few stories with those themes. . .
I never found it at all creepy. Fascinating to no end, but never creepy.
Tigerlili Cavill 4:10 pm on May 13, 2007 Permalink |
Even the name “The dark is rising” is creepy! I think we are talking Susan Cooper stories generally now, and there were two I think, an illustrated one about a Selkie woman and her human lover. There is a nice version of that story in Women who Run with the Wolves called Sealskin-Soulskin) But you are right, Brits, Seaward isn’t part of the DIR sequence, and it’s the one with the girl who has Selkie blood who has to choose between being with her own kind or with the normal world.