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Thriller writer Tayler Kent, caught in a blizzard en route to his Romney Marsh cottage, stops to deliver a package to Charles Hogarth, a mysterious collector of supernatural stories and strange ephemera that has earned him the moniker "the Master of the Macabre".
Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) [1] was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels.
Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about 100 square miles (260 km 2).The Marsh has been in use for centuries, though its inhabitants commonly suffered from malaria until the 18th century.
The Hope Church of All Saints is a ruined church building on Romney Marsh, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of New Romney, in Kent, England, near the road from Ivychurch to New Romney. Since 2017 a sculpture park has been created on the site.
On 11 November 2008 The Walt Disney Company released a limited pressing of 39,500 copies of The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh on the DVD format of video disc for the first time, in a collector's metal tin case. This was a part of the newly issued Disney Treasures collection and was now titled Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. This release ...
"A splendid addition to the world-famed Dr. Syn series," according to The Observer. It received positive reviews for its exciting plot and swift narrative pace, as well as some humorous moments like Syn's pulpit denunciation of himself. "Full of violent action, with all subsidiary figures in good form," wrote Maurice Richardson.
Barham introduces the collection with the statement that "The World, according to the best geographers, is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh". [4] The best-known poem in the collection is "The Jackdaw of Rheims", which is about a jackdaw that steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint under the name Jem Crow.
Romney Warren or Romney Marsh is a 10.9-hectare (27-acre) country park and Local Nature Reserve in New Romney in Kent.It is owned by Folkestone and Hythe District Council and managed by the Romney Warren Project, which is a partnership between Folkestone and Hythe District Council, Romney Warren Charitable Trust, Kent Wildlife Trust and Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership.