If anything, things seem to be getting worse with him the actual point where we pick up the story is when Lennox has taken a cluster of other patients out into the forest to do something-or-other in the same grove where the lichen appeared. Shortly after we pick up their narrative, Heather’s sister Sylvia, a folklorist, returns unexpectedly from her travels.Īlas, all of this support has not served to help Lennox fumble his way back to normality. Living nearby and visiting regularly are his wife Margo, who is an accomplished artist, his daughter Heather, who works in the University library, and his grandson Sam, who’s been working at the local SF/fantasy bookshop while deciding on a more long-term career path and injured his leg recently falling out of a tree whilst protesting the construction of a bypass through Goodmanswood.
The trees were felled and the lichen gone, but not before Lennox himself was affected by the early Noughties, he’s ended up a long-term resident at the Arbour, a fairly comfortable local mental hospital, along with various other casualties of the lichen. Professor Lennox Price, an American academic transplanted to Brichester University and an expert on mass hysteria, investigated the matter and discovered that a strange hallucinogenic lichen has been growing on a copse of trees standing in the vicinity of a strange circle of bricks deep in the forest.
Goodmanswood has been haunted by strange rumours over the years, and in the 1960s a number of locals seemed to be affected by curious psychological symptoms in the area.
Somewhere on the outskirts of Brichester is Goodmanswood, a forested area bordering a suburb that has been built up over the village that used to be there.
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