Word: midwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MIDWICH CUCKOOS (247 pp.)-John Wyndham-Ballantine...
Novelist Wyndham well knows the first rule in writing a chiller-effective specters must be ectoplasmatter-of-fact-and so he takes the dullest, most ordinary village in England to populate with his monsters. Nothing much noteworthy has happened in Midwich since the Black Death. One day something very odd does happen: every living thing falls into a trance. All who pass through an invisible perimeter pass out. Traffic piles up. Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich...
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