{"id":7123,"date":"2020-02-11T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:45:08","slug":"335s-captive-beautiful-woman-and-her-captive-aesthetically-pleasing-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/335s-captive-beautiful-woman-and-her-captive-aesthetically-pleasing-children\/","title":{"rendered":"335S: Captive Beautiful Woman and Her Captive Aesthetically Pleasing Children (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>I hope someone can help me with this one!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ll start with the part that I remember the most clearly &#8211; the part that has haunted me all these years for some inexplicable reason.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two children are walking behind a beautiful woman down a long, grand corridor lined with mirrors. As they walk, the woman glances to the side to see their reflection in the mirrors.\u00a0 She says to herself.\u00a0 &#8220;Yes, that is better.\u00a0 Much better.&#8221;\u00a0 Because previously she had two large, beautiful, dangerous dogs (perhaps dobermans?) following her wherever she went.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I read the book in the mid 70&#8217;s, but it could have been written earlier than that.\u00a0 I read a lot of old books as a kid.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The feel of the book is Gothic and dark.\u00a0 Something like\u00a0<i>Wolves of\u00a0<\/i><i>Willoughby<\/i><i>\u00a0Chase\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>by Joan Aiken or a Bellairs book.\u00a0 Or possibly even one of those creepy Scholastic paperbacks.\u00a0 But for some reason I think the writing quality was pretty good.\u00a0 Of course I was only around 10, so what did I know?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The children walking behind the woman are young and have been all dressed up.\u00a0 Pre-puberty.\u00a0 I guess you wouldn&#8217;t want sullen pimply teens following you around as decorative props?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I think the children are siblings, a boy and a girl?\u00a0 Perhaps twins?\u00a0 But that&#8217;s just a feeling.\u00a0 Maybe because they&#8217;re so aesthetically pleasing to the beautiful woman?\u00a0 In a way that a short, fat blond kid walking next to a tall, skinny redhead kid wouldn&#8217;t be.\u00a0 Like an Edward Gorey drawing of two matching Victorian children in matching velvet outfits.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The children are there against their will.\u00a0 Although it doesn&#8217;t seem like they got there by something as mundane as being thrown in your standard Pedo-Van.\u00a0 I feel like there was some kind of magic involved.\u00a0 Like a magic mirror or magic painting, something like that.\u00a0 But without the humor and lightheartedness that say, an Edward Eager book would have.\u00a0 These children are definitely in danger.\u00a0 And are they in another dimension?\u00a0 Another Time?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also think the woman may be held against her will as well.\u00a0 Like some evil monster? power? man? is keeping her captive with his magic and brought the children there to appease her, but bringing her a couple of kidnapped children was hardly going to cheer her up given that she has zero freedom even though she does get to live in this fancy mansion? castle? wearing beautiful clothes.\u00a0 She did seem quite depressed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Does anyone remember anything that sounds like this?\u00a0 I wish I could remember more.\u00a0 And I wish I could trust what I think I remember.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you in advance for your time!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope someone can help me with this one! I&#8217;ll start with the part that I remember the most clearly &#8211; the part that has haunted me all these years for some inexplicable reason. Two children are walking behind a beautiful woman down a long, grand corridor lined with mirrors. As they walk, the woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7138,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions\/7138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}