More literary fame. Stroud Green is the setting of a 1984 Ruth Rendell schlock-horror supernatural thriller called The Killing Doll.
There are snippets on Google Books. I love the review: "Rendell's quiet English setting harbors a surprising, slightly excessive number of criss-crossing nut-cases." Yep, that gets SG to a tee.
The plot seems to involve witchcraft, Alesteir Crowley style orgies, alcoholism, male homosexuality and lesbianism.......crikey. No change there then. A lot of this seems to go on in 'a house at the Stroud Green end of Mount Pleasant Gardens, facing what remains of the old green'. I don't think there is a Mount Pleasant Gardens but it's close.
@Ali you were right, Stephen King does not have the exclusive rights to supernatural experiences on Parkland Walk, this must be the book you were thinking of on another thread.
Anyone read it?
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It's an efficient enough little shocker, but it didn't inspire me to keep reading her.