“Lud in the Mist” by Hope Mirrless. Really delightful story that inspired Stardust by (damnatio memoriae). I’m inspired to turn this into a roleplaying setting in the vein of PBTA or one of the Sanity mechanics games.
Everything I loved about it (the lush descriptions of the English countryside) are the things people hate about Tolkien.
But I did finally look up what “pleached” meant.
Emilybook 