Eventually, she is vouchsafed a disturbing revelation of where this domination is leading. It becomes apparent that she is entrapped by the power of Nuaman, the fifteen year old boy (or is he?) who also dominates his younger female peers, Marvan and Ianthe, and Katia the Polish maid. Idyllic to start with, the tale gradually becomes sinister as Miss Hazel discovers more about her mysterious charges and their surroundings. In response to her questioning, Dr Ravelin is decidedly unforthcoming about the origin of his mysterious charges. At this isolated moorland residence she is tasked with tutoring three mysterious "foreign" children of undisclosed nationality. Ringstones (1951) is centred on the first-person narrative of Daphne Hazel, a trainee gym teacher who accepts a holiday job at Ringstones Hall from an eccentric academic named Dr Ravelin. Two of the the three novels contained therein ( Ringstones, The Sound of his Horn and The Doll Maker) are also available in free online editions. Unfortunately, however, I have had to rely on a typo-riddled P.O.D.
This is largely due to the stalwart efforts of the Tartarus Press in publishing high-quality hardback and e-book editions of his long-out-of-print and unpublished works, plus a biography by Mark Valentine. John William Wall (1910-1989), who wrote under the name of "Sarban", has had something of a renaissance of late. Sarban's Nightmares - Part One (Warning - spoilers ahead)
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