11/11/2022 0 Comments Watcher in the woods![]() ![]() ![]() I checked and re-checked that paragraph, and I didn't miss a sentence or transcribe it incorrectly or anything. He rubbed his forehead, and I knew he was remembering how many times in the last few hours he had bumped it, my tall father exaggeratedly stooping in dormered bedrooms and hunching through doorways. "And ceilings that are high enough for a human being," my father said ruefully. Much of the prose and dialogue is somewhat stilted, and Randall was clearly a huge fan of adverbs-the whole thing feels VERY 70s. This following passage is a good example of the writing style: The opening was in the shape of an enormous rectangle, each corner angled so smoothly, mitered so precisely, that it seemed almost man-made. It was a giant oak, its trunk so thick, so huge that even if the three of us had held hands with our arms outstretched, we couldn't have encircled it. She accidentally walked through an interdimensional portal-an interdimensional portal that appears once every fifty years in a rectangle-shaped opening in a tree, because WHY NOT?-and got stuck on the other side: #Watcher in the woods movieI remember being terrified by this movie as a kid, but beyond it starring Bette Davis, I can't remember a thing about it. I have no idea if the plot was even as remotely incomprehensibly bonkers as this book is-based on the trailer, it looks like in additon to ramping up the action, the screenwriters dispensed with the telepathic people from a futuristic alternate dimension?īecause, yes. Aylwood is convinced that somehow, she's still out there.Īnddd then, after dropping that bomb, she moves out and Jan's family moves in. Creepiness ensues-multiple mirrors crack, seven-year-old Ellie starts writing strange backwards messages, and Jan continues to feel some sort of PRESENCE in the woods. Search parties did what they could, but no one ever found a trace of her. The townspeople assumed that Karen ran away, but Mrs. Aylwood's daughter, Karen, went for a walk in the woods. Aylwood, the house's previous owner, moves out she tells Jan a little bit about the Mysterious Tragedy attached to the house. Almost fifty years ago, Mrs. They are going to love every bit of it, and what am I going to do? They don't know that something is watching and waiting there in the woods. ![]() They like the house, I told myself incredulously. Once her family chooses a house-one in the middle of nowhere with a Tragically Mysterious Past, one that Jan just KNOWS is dangerous in some way-Jan is even less enthused: I didn't belong in a lonely house set at the edge of woods or in a small town like Bywater where everyone knew everyone else and strangers remained strangers. These are the things that make life confusing.įifteen-year-old Jan isn't particularly excited about moving from Ohio to a small town in Massachusetts: Note: The original 1976 book was titled A Watcher in the Woods. Four years later, it was republished as The Watcher in the Woods to coincide with the Disney movie. ![]()
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