![]() For a close-knit rural community in the Fifties, this raises interesting questions about trust and morality in a way that seems almost quaint by today’s standards. It subsequently transpires that every woman of childbearing age (married or not) fell pregnant that night. At first, no lasting harm has been sustained by the Midwich residents. Everyone in Midwich falls into an inexplicably deep slumber, and no one can enter or leave the village until the slumber passes. ![]() T he book’s premise is quite simple Richard Gayford is away from the village of Midwich celebrating his birthday with his wife, Janet, in London. Film and TV adaptations followed, most notably: The Day of the Triffids, and Chocky. It was the fourth of seven novels published in his lifetime when readers would enjoy a Wyndham novel every two years, on average. ![]() The Midwich Cuckoos was published in 1957, and it was later filmed twice as Village of the Damned. I grew up on dystopian horror with a big splash of science fiction’-feel, the hallmark of John Wyndham’s writing. I’m about as Southern English as they come, so I love any horror tale set in a village location, and I frequently draw upon rural life for inspiration in my own horror writing. ![]()
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