Lud-in-the-mist (1926)

The town's respectable citizens outlaw talk of Faerie while fairy fruit and an older history refuse to stay outside their lives. Magic acquires the force of something both desired and publicly denied, making family worry inseparable from a whole community's evasions. The older, elaborate prose suits this uncomfortable enchantment. Choose it for the way a boundary on a map becomes a boundary in the mind.