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Ali: Which is one of the best things about the film, I think. The general weirdness of the house and the things in it. Ali: To be fair, if it was just a ladder that was propped up against a cliff, that would be quite dangerous to climb down. Ali: I think actually that some of the strongest elements of the film are the parts that are about the fantasy, the visual elements of these dream-like things that have been shoved together and are the wrong shapes. 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 ]

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There is nobody in the house so when Marianne awakes again she draws a boy at an upstairs window – a companion during her next dream visit. As it turns out the boy, Mark (Steven Jones) is also in bed in the real world – seriously ill with polio and unable to walk – and has now been pulled into her alternative world. In comparison to what is shown today this was truly terrifying, and very imaginative. I've never read the book though. 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. Yes, the book ends slightly differently from the TV show, in that the dreams do not cease for Marianne once she has recovered following her illness; it is implied that they will continue, possibly for the rest of her life. Adam: No, not as a child. But I really can’t remember at all how I came across it. I may have looked up: ‘if you liked Return to Oz you’ll like this’ kind of list.Ali: Yeah, I felt like one of the things that I really liked about the book was that it was quite tightly structured. There’s quite a logical progression between the different dreams, and then she draws something else as a consequence of that dream, and then theres another dream and the consequences of what she’s just drawn are revealed. The film’s pretty erratic, in terms of how her drawing is motivated.

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Ren: She decides to make a girl to be friends with because she’s angry with Mark. But she draws her to totally the wrong scale, so she’s worried for a while that she’s created a friendly giant of a girl. Ali: Well, in the book. Marianne draws a radio in another room to where Mark is, because she thinks it will keep him entertained. But then when they turn it on — well, we haven’t talked about THEM yet, but anyway, it’s a sinister radio. Storr, Catherine (1970). "Fear and evil in children's books". Children's Literature in Education. 1: 22–40. doi: 10.1007/BF01140654. S2CID 143753098.Lane End 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 7 x 30 minute episodes Short-lived Aussie serial Lane End debuted on 11 March 1972. Written… Adam:It’s too late. But yeah, in the film Mark is dead but in the book he’s not. And in the film Anna and her parents go on holiday to a coastal resort and Anna sees a lighthouse in the distance, which is seemingly the lighthouse from the dream world. Adam: There was a beach. It did remind me, reading the book, how much better board games have got. They have chess, and they’re like ‘we could draw Monopoly’ and then play two games of Monopoly in a row. I was like, God, two games of Monopoly in a row! I felt sorry for them.

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In Paperhouse, they escape the threat of the father and make it to the lighthouse, but then they feel that the lighthouse is only a kind of resting place, not the final destination. Where was I going with this? Ren: The not-father is creeping down the stairs and Mark’s urging Anna to destroy just the part of the drawing with her father in it. But she’s asleep, so her sleeping self is reaching for this drawing, and she has a candle next to her bed, and she manages to set it on fire. What happens when a recurring dream becomes so lucid and involving that it feels more like reality than the everyday? Does the dream – unsettling as it is – become a more valid state of existence than the dreamer’s waking life? and that he is also a pupil of Miss Chesterfield, “her” new governess. Marianne starts drawing useful things that are needed in the eerie dream house but although the children get to know eachRen: Welcome to Still Scared: Talking Children’s Horror, a podcast about creepy, spooky and disturbing children’s books, films and TV. I’m Ren Wednesday, my co-host is Adam Whybray, and today we’re very excited to have a guest on our show. Their name’s Ali Kay and they’re joining us as we talk about the 1958 novel Marianne Dreams, and the 1990 film that’s based on it, Paperhouse. Enjoy! Ali: The helicopter sound comes really early, and I was like ‘what, they’re putting the helicopter in now?’ And it’s the distinctly unsaid that makes the story so potent: if the features of the nightmare world are dependent entirely on the drawings in Marianne’s sketchbook, then what exists beyond that? When Mark and Marianne escape the house, and set up a John Wyndham-esque “cosy apocalypse” homestead, barricaded into a lighthouse of her creation, what lies across the ocean that they wistfully gaze out upon? It’s a book filled with questions, and lesser authors might have unwisely attempted to provide logical, join-the-dots answers.