A young couple finds a dilapidated but still-idyllic cottage in Hampshire's New Forest and quickly move into their dream home.

To reason they fall apart you needn't be too clever, with no teamwork the team's big star may die on third forever. seriously, as amusing as this is (for a while) it becomes increasingly more irritating and eventually starts to ruin the story. His head then seems to briefly flare a "spectrum aura radiating outwards, expanding until the triangular room was filled with its variegation.Godhood Seeker: Mycroft’s desire to tap the magic leyline of Gramarye is driven by the unadulterated power it would give him. Midge can see only the good, while Mike, the cynic and part-time musician, questions all around him. A suddenly much larger populace simultaneously give birth, cover the cottage walls, and attack other wildlife.

His first novel, The Rats, was an instant bestseller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. I expected more things to occur inside and around the cottage and towards the end, I was just left with a wanting. Reality Warping: With intricate alteration of stonework; immersion of Mike in a painted replica of the land by the cottage, and sensory stimulation of instantly conjured animals, the influence of "ethereal vitality" seems boundless. My sister recommended James Herbert and decided that since she thought I'd not have the heart nor stomach for horror (as I'm a fan of fantasy and dislike seeing anything gruesome or bone chilling freaky), that starting me off with The Magic Cottage would be a good first choice. Herbert's latest novel begins as a rather taut political thriller/horror hybrid, but it begins to deteriorate about halfway through, becoming increasingly poorly paced and confused.

Although suffering the same fate as so many series of its era—virtually all the episodes are lost, a kinescope of one episode is held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, with another (dating from December 28, 1950) held by the Paley Center for Media.