Devil’s Tor (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: David Lindsay
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—theological romance
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Dartmoor
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1930’s, Precious metals or stones
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
Ingrid Fleming, a solitary young woman given to dreaming, takes a cousin, Hugh Drapier, to see Devil’s Tor, which bears a crag shaped like a human face. She has always believed, intuitively, that the tor is the tomb of a mysterious female. Lightning strikes and splits the “face,” revealing a staircase. Drapier goes down into a cavern, where he sees a vision of the Earth-Mother. He also finds a piece of stone that he does not realize at first to be one half of a broken flint, the other half of which already is in his possession. Its mate was consigned to his care...
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