Word: alfgif
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Sending is a suspense fantasy that makes charming, provocative and believable the adventures of Alfgif Hollaston, an ex-colonial officer turned landscape painter. Alfgif finds himself beset by a nameless fear. He traces the source to supernatural broadcasts from "the Purpose," which may be the devil, or simply a pantheistic deity. Alfgif gets a lot of help from a winsome polecat named Meg, a pet who rides in his coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses...
That is Household's power too. In his hands all Alfgif's odd doings somehow seem simple and natural and rare as a June day in Somerset...
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