Photographing Fairies
by Steve Szilagyiliterary work· published 1992
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Photographing Fairies is a novel by Steve Szilagyi. Taking place in the 1920s, the novel is loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies and includes Arthur Conan Doyle as a minor character. The story dwells on themes such as magic, human sexuality, photography, and human perception. The novel is told in the first person, from the perspective of an American photographer named Charles Castle. Castle is currently held in a prison cell in England. He is to be executed the next day for the crime of murder. He recounts the events, which began four months earlier, that led to his imprisonment and death sentence. Working as a photographer in London, Castle was visited by a constable named Michael Walsmear.
Adaptations (1)
Photographing Fairies was adapted into a 1997 film.
Photographing Fairies1997 · film · 106 min · dir. Nick Willing · IMDb ↗IMDb6.882%Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets
