Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairies Author:Terry Jones, Brian Froud "July 6th 1895. Nanna wuldnt bleive me. Ettie wuldnt bleive me. Auntie Mercy wuldn't bleive me. But I got one. Now theyv got to blieve me." — What young Angelica Cottington "got" was...a fairy. And, you are holding the evidence in your hands! It really happened -- a hoax perpetrated by two girls who claimed to have photogr... more »aphed actual "fairies"; among the people caught up in the popular hysteria were Arthur Conan Doyle (who fell for it) and Harry Houdini (who did not).
Now, this remarkable parody, written by a former member of the Monty Python troupe, takes a sly look at what happened in a fashion that's riotously witty, visually extraordinary, and wildly original. In every respect, this "handwritten diary" captures the look of the age -- though the fairies, it is true, do sometimes have a more malevolent aspect than one might expect... A fresh -- and funny -- take on the true story that inspired two movies.« less