Marion Fox is the author of Ape's-Face.
Ape's-Face,fox chooses instead to invest the Wiltshire downs with a spirit of their own, a thing of immense vitality and evil that walks their great spaces like a rushing mighty wind. Once in a hundred years, at the winter solstice, the evil takes its toll of the people who conquered its ancient worshippers, the prehistoric folk of the downs. As our novel opens, the winter solstice approaches. This edition of Marion Fox’s masterpiece is the first republication of Ape’s-Face since 1914.