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The Ghost Moth (The Red Grouse Tales)
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‘Was it Eve who tempted Adam, or was it Adam who was tempted by Eve?�
British author Leslie WP Garland has served successful as a civil engineer in the UK, the Far East and Africa, and as a photographer, and now he turns to writing stories he groups into various books as The Red Grouse Tales. THE GHOST MOTH is one of these stories. Leslie lives in Northumberland, England.
Reading the Foreword we discover the background and meaning of the name for this fine series � The Red Grouse Tales: ‘Quite how we’d got into this story telling thing is something that eludes me now, but somehow we had; the “we� being a group of us who had met usually, though not exclusively, at “The Red Grouse Inn� on the first Thursday evening of each month. “The Red Grouse� was an old coaching inn run by a charming landlady called Jenny. She had been married once upon a time, but things hadn’t worked out and after her divorce she’d ended up buying the inn. It had a warm, cosy, homely feel to it - red carpets, dark oak wood panelling, benches with cushions and heavily varnished tables - and if you liked sitting round one of these tables and having a few pints of Jenny’s excellent real ale and a chat on an evening, then this was the place for you! Then, on one such evening, one of our company told a story. It came completely out of the blue, with no prior discussion or anything to suggest it would happen. What I do recall is that that first story, whichever one it was, had us all entranced, so much so that at the following meeting a story was almost expected and thereafter we started to look forward to those Thursday evenings not just for the social chit-chat, but for the story that we would hear that evening. Due to the spontaneous and informal nature of the story telling it never occurred to me, or anyone else for that matter, to take notes or write anything down and it was only afterwards that it struck me that those tales might be worth saving for posterity, if that doesn’t sound too pompous! Hence, because this was done very much “after the event�, the result is that what follows is from my memory of what was said, and I fully realise that this may have failed me on some of the details and so offer my apologies to both the original tellers of these tales and you the reader, if this is the case.� A fine taste of the author’s prose, this.
And who could resist an invitation such as this � the opening door to explore the marvelous stories Leslie shares. THE GHOST MOTH,in the year 1535, relates the adventures of novice–brothers Adam Callow, Rodiron McBane and Brother La Roche et al in the Black Acres Monastery and the religious restrictions placed on them and how they fared with monastic life � a richly colorful excursions into sexual proclivities, forbidden arenas, and isolates of the supernatural/paranormal forays.
Exceptionally fine writing and weaving of a story within a story - a fine invitation to follow these Red Grouse Tales!
British author Leslie WP Garland has served successful as a civil engineer in the UK, the Far East and Africa, and as a photographer, and now he turns to writing stories he groups into various books as The Red Grouse Tales. THE GHOST MOTH is one of these stories. Leslie lives in Northumberland, England.
Reading the Foreword we discover the background and meaning of the name for this fine series � The Red Grouse Tales: ‘Quite how we’d got into this story telling thing is something that eludes me now, but somehow we had; the “we� being a group of us who had met usually, though not exclusively, at “The Red Grouse Inn� on the first Thursday evening of each month. “The Red Grouse� was an old coaching inn run by a charming landlady called Jenny. She had been married once upon a time, but things hadn’t worked out and after her divorce she’d ended up buying the inn. It had a warm, cosy, homely feel to it - red carpets, dark oak wood panelling, benches with cushions and heavily varnished tables - and if you liked sitting round one of these tables and having a few pints of Jenny’s excellent real ale and a chat on an evening, then this was the place for you! Then, on one such evening, one of our company told a story. It came completely out of the blue, with no prior discussion or anything to suggest it would happen. What I do recall is that that first story, whichever one it was, had us all entranced, so much so that at the following meeting a story was almost expected and thereafter we started to look forward to those Thursday evenings not just for the social chit-chat, but for the story that we would hear that evening. Due to the spontaneous and informal nature of the story telling it never occurred to me, or anyone else for that matter, to take notes or write anything down and it was only afterwards that it struck me that those tales might be worth saving for posterity, if that doesn’t sound too pompous! Hence, because this was done very much “after the event�, the result is that what follows is from my memory of what was said, and I fully realise that this may have failed me on some of the details and so offer my apologies to both the original tellers of these tales and you the reader, if this is the case.� A fine taste of the author’s prose, this.
And who could resist an invitation such as this � the opening door to explore the marvelous stories Leslie shares. THE GHOST MOTH,in the year 1535, relates the adventures of novice–brothers Adam Callow, Rodiron McBane and Brother La Roche et al in the Black Acres Monastery and the religious restrictions placed on them and how they fared with monastic life � a richly colorful excursions into sexual proclivities, forbidden arenas, and isolates of the supernatural/paranormal forays.
Exceptionally fine writing and weaving of a story within a story - a fine invitation to follow these Red Grouse Tales!
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August 8, 2020
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