Wyndham loves to create an unnervingly out-of-the-ordinary premise for his stories without getting overly bogged down in explaining the very roots of how it all came about. And between the thirty boys and twenty-eight girls – their influence over Midwich is slowly revealing itself to be a very definite threat… The babies seem to be able to exert a form of controlling compulsion over their mothers – forcing those that had left Midwich to now return to the village.īut this is only the first signs of the controlling power that the Midwich Children have in their collective grasp. And after just a short amount of time has passed, it becomes clear that something further isn’t right. However when the Dayout babies are finally born, they appear healthy and normal. A deep wave of concern has once again returned to engulf Midwich.
Furthermore, many of the women have no reason behind their sudden pregnancy. The time of the conception undoubtedly during the time of the Dayout. All of the women in the village capable of bearing children find that they are now pregnant. And as the following days pass by, people start to forget about the strange occurrence that was now simply being referred to as the ‘Dayout’.īut, after a few months pass by, a new worrying development starts to emerge. Furthermore, there seemed to be no obvious lasting effects.
The people of Midwich were waking from their daylong sleep. The entire village appeared to be trapped within a strange invisible blanket, with everyone caught inside it remaining unconscious.Īnd then, as suddenly as this strange invisible bubble had descended, its effects all of a sudden disappeared. It appeared that anyone attempting to go anywhere near the village would instantly succumb to a deep and sudden unconsciousness. Something that no one could put any reasoning to. Something very strange had happened in Midwich during the night they had been away. However, upon arriving back at Midwich, they find that the roads into the sleepy village they call home had all been closed off by the police. Richard Gayford and his wife, Janet, had been away in London for the night of the 26th September.
The story was later adapted into the film ‘Village Of The Damned’ both in 1960 and then again in 1995. First published back in 1957, ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’ formed the seventh published novel by British author John Wyndham.
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