{"id":3483,"date":"2019-09-16T18:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2019-09-16T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:45:05","slug":"the-lost-story-by-baraa-mohamed-and-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/2019\/09\/16\/the-lost-story-by-baraa-mohamed-and-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Story, by Bara’a Mohamed and anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This gothic short story was written by two students from the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA). For more information on their project, click <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. The illustrations they have used are unidentified wood engravings by Dalziel after Arthur Hughes, Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVII (1870), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.188<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018No!\u2019 the old frail beggar wailed desperately. Behind him, was a long queue \u2013 full of hushes and whispers. A dilapidated castle towered over. The gloomy grey clouds overtook and tempted the people. \u2018Don\u2019t go! The spirits will devour your souls!\u2019 The beggar staggered down the tattered stairs. A raven perched itself beside him. Nevertheless, the crowd filed into the castle. The beggar sighed and spoke to the raven: \u2018Ah well, we tried our best to warn them didn\u2019t we, Andy?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emilia was a young girl, only just twelve years of age. She\nand her brother Edward were running amok in the woods. Their parents had been\naway for perhaps two days now. And for those past two days, a raven had been\nwhispering in her ears: \u2018Taken by the demons, they were taken by the demons,\nthey were.\u2019 She\u2019d been ignoring it for a while but early that morning the raven\ncame again: \u2018Look in the castle, for the demons!\u2019 She quickly called Edward and\nthey began their journey to the castle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The beggar was making his way back towards his lair. Full of pots and pans, potions and pictures, spells and scripts. When he left, the town was empty, no one had listened to his words although he repeated them plenty. So when he saw two children, shock ran through his spine. \u2018Oh, children, children, you must stop! Beware of the castle or your blood will clot.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emilia turned to stare. \u2018What\u2019s this old man saying to us Edward dear?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Emilia and her brother continued their journey \u2013 but soon they got lost. Little did they know they made the wizard angry. \u2018Why won\u2019t anyone listen to me?\u2019 He got angrier and angrier. \u2018I\u2019ll show these children,\u2019 he said, and with that he set off his monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And sure enough, later that morning two children lay dead among the bushes. And the town fell silent as the demons had eaten everyone in the town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This gothic short story was written by two students from the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA). For more information on their project, click here. The illustrations they have used are unidentified wood engravings by Dalziel after Arthur Hughes, Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVII (1870), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.188 \u2018No!\u2019 the old frail beggar wailed desperately.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}