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Ali: I mean I didn’t until that part of the book. Because up until then they move, but you don’t see them move. There’s just suddenly more of them and they’re closer to the house. Over the course of the series, she finds that everything she draws appears in the dream - unfortunately, as she isn't very good at drawing, the images in the by now recurring dream look odd - the scribbles on the window appear as curly prison bars.
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Adam: (still laughing) Oh, that’s brilliant. Now I’m going to try and make Bergman connections. No, I don’t really think… Adam: But you’re in a similar position as a view to Anna, I think. You don’t trust him, even though he seems kind of decent, because you’ve had these quite disturbing scenes in the paper house, and that’s the same actor, obviously. Ren: I mean I think it’s definitely a proper quintessential children’s horror theme. In the Coraline vein of something familiar becoming unfamiliar and monstrous. But you don’t really know who it’s aimed for. Ren: I wouldn’t be surprised. It definitely feels like its own thing. It’s interesting, it’s good. I liked them both, I think they both work really well for what they are, but they’re not the same thing at all.Ren: Well, I think it’s immediately creepy from the first time she goes int the dream to the house and it’s this flat-looking house on this absolutely deserted plain because she hasn’t drawn anything else, and the wind whipping through the grass, and it definitely has a pretty eerie atmosphere from the beginning.
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Adam: Well, one thing Ali, you pointed out watching the film was that the laws of cause and effect don’t really apply in the way that the book has it. The book’s very much a sequential narrative. Adam: — the radio is helping the not-father, and blares out (Adam does a malevolent robotic voice) ‘They’re under the stairs! They’re under the stairs!’ When she wakes up the next morning, she realises that the house she had drawn was identical to the house in her dream - she draws the stairs.
Adam: I’ve only read The Weird Stone. He’s certainly got a good sense of the living world, or the world charged with animistic energy. Marianne (Vikki Chambers) is confined to bed after falling from a horse. Out of boredom she doodles an imaginary house in her notepad – and is subsequently transported there in her dreams. I remember reading Marianne Dreams as a child and finding it quite disturbing, but also fascinating. Not sure whether it's one I want to revisit. The Polly and the Wolf books, by contrast, I only discovered as an adult and I love them! There’s a force in this place. You felt it in the cold wind and now it is in them. It pulls at you, pulls all the energy. I think it would pull the light from the sky if it could.’
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Catherine Storr, Baroness Balogh (born Catherine Cole; 21 July 1913 – 8 January 2001, [1]) was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for a series of books about a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. She also wrote under the name Helen Lourie. [2] Life [ edit ] Ali: I think if they’d done that to start with then it wouldn’t have been scary, but because that’s pretty late on, when they’re making their escape to the lighthouse. By that point I felt like I was invested enough in the thing for that to be sinister. Julia Eccleshare, "Storr, Catherine", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, Oxford: OUP, January 2005 accessed 28 June 2008Ren: Yes, because it’s like — is it part of her illness, or is it because she set her bed on fire? You don’t know.
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Storr's books often involve confronting fears, even in the lighthearted Polly stories, and she was aware that she wrote frightening stories. [9] On the subject, she writes: [10] "We should show them that evil is something they already know about or half know. It's not something right outside themselves and this immediately puts it, not only into their comprehension, but it also gives them a degree of power".
In comparison to what is shown today this was truly terrifying, and very imaginative. I've never read the book though.