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Shrouded in the same brand of mystery and contradiction that forms its tangled plot, Ritual, the 1967 debut by RADA-trained playwright David Pinner is commonly recognised by cult cinema fanatics as the original seed that grew into the towering movie enigma ‘The Wicker Man’.
Set against an enclosed rural Cornish landscape, ‘Ritual’ follows the trail of English police officer, David Hanlin, who is requested to investigate the murder of a local child.
During his short stay, he is slowly subjected to a spectacle of psychological trickery, sexual seduction and ancient religious practices.
As he delves deeper into the village’s mysterious way of life he finds himself becoming embroiled and seduced into their bizarre rituals.
He becomes more and more confused and starts to feel almost hypnotised by the community.
But when another child is murdered he knows he needs to break the spell and find the killer.
Can he get to the bottom of the mystery?
Or will he become the next victim in this dark Ritual?
Pinner's poetic and hallucinatory sequences were transformed into Robin Hardy's 1973 film, The Wicker Man, which has enthralled and inspired generations of British movie patrons and folk-pop enthusiasts throughout the world.
‘Ritual’s opulent dialogue, with the sickly richness of its countryside, and Pinner’s decaying village, can stand alone from the book’s illustrious successor. But, be warned, like The Wicker Man, it is quite likely to test your dreams of leaving the city for a shady nook by a babbling brook.’ The Guardian
David Pinner was born in 1940. After school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he appeared with repertory companies at Sheffield, Perth, Coventry (Belgrade Theatre) and Windsor. By 1969 he had written thirteen plays, including ‘Fanghorn’, ‘Dickon’, ‘Lightfall’ and ‘Eiderdown’. RITUAL was his first novel.
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- Sales Rank: #128108 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-10
- Released on: 2015-09-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Inspiration for The Wicker Man
By Countess Spider
David Pinner's Ritual opens in the English village of Thorn where the dead body of 8 year old Dian Spark is found by an oak tree. Suspicion is stirred by the fact she is holding a sprig of garlic and the press raise the question of a ritual killing. Enter Detective Inspector David Hanlin, a no nonsense police officer despatched from London to investigate the incident, and whose eyes remain almost permanently behind a pair of shades as he suffers from sun blindness.
Hanlin begins with Reverend White at his church who insists the village is a Christian one, but David notices the altar cross is missing, to which the Reverend insists it often disappears and reappears again. However, the holy man is outraged when David finds a monkey's head and garlic flowers on the altar.
Events cut to a seance being conducted by Dian's mother to ascertain if her child was murdered. Meanwhile, David is exploring the wood and is taken by Gypo, the local nutter, to the oak tree where Dian was found. The monkey's head is back, along with two bats pinned along side it.
Back at the seance, Mrs. Spark claims there is witchcraft in the village and some of those present are involved. The accusation stirs up hysteria among the group, until the village squire takes control, suggesting the police should be brought in. Quite conveniently, he then makes the acquaintance of David Hanlin when Anna brings the detective back to the house to give him lodging.
Hanlin initially spends his time visiting and getting to know the leading village characters. He visits Lawrence Cready, a rather camp character who had bought Squire Fenn's mansion, when Fenn had become debt ridden. Although Cready does have a witchcraft museum in his manor, he insists to David it is merely memorabilia. However, Hanlin discovers a doll falls with a pin stuck through its abdomen and the name Dian written across the back, when it falls out of the pocket of one of the local children, Fat Billy. The child goes hysterical, claiming he hated Dian and that her mother is a witch, but denies killing her. The boy is later found dead by the same oak tree.
Events come to a head when Hanlin receives an invitation from Cready to be initiated in a moon worshipping ceremony the villagers are holding. He goes. The villagers are dressed as animals, including two march hares, while Cready is dragged up as a man-woman. The proceedings end up on the beach at a bonfire flanked by an altar of stones where a white horse is sacrificed. The whole thing appears becomes hysterical, setting off a chain of accusation and counter accusation, before Hanlin eventually struggles and discovers the identity of the killer in a twist that no one sees coming.
If Ritual is famous for anything, it is as the novel Anthony Schaffer first considered for adaptation before deciding to do his own thing, which led to The Wicker Man. Ritual is very rich in its language. The problem is that, at times, this richness becomes over opulent in terms of dialogue. Virtually everyone in Thorn appears to be a budding poet or raconteur. The dialogue, at times, is amusing in its perversity ("Bullies always get their comeuppance! St. Valentine's Day is always hanging around some old garage!"), sometimes distracting ("You shouldn't gallop about in Gods house, you know!...God usually has his midday hibernation approximately now. He has to work very hard!"), often unbelievable in its absurdity ( "Who would dare, during my angelical reign, who would dare place a shrunken anthropoid's head on my high altar! This is really removing Lucifer's trousers."). It is difficult to judge whether Pinner simply got carried away or is deliberately having a laugh, given that the writer himself has stated Ritual to be "blackly, ironically humorous".
Pinner's characters are interesting. David Hanlin is a trickster, a man who is not always what he appears to be. He hides his eyes behind sunglasses, though is more for medical reasons than shielding himself from others. Throughout the book, Hanlin tells lies in order to further investigation, yet keeps telling himself he does not like lying; a symptom/prefiguring of his split personality perhaps? The supporting characters resemble a Hammer horror rep of the day, missing only the "arr, ye be stranger around here." Lawrence Cready, the main protagonist, is a wonderfully repulsive old queen of a man and is the containment of the only supernatural element of Ritual. Mrs.Spark, the murdered girl's mother, rebounds between grieving desperation and hysteria. Anna Spark is not unlike Willow in The Wicker Man; a sexual temptress.
Like language, Ritual is enriched in imagery, though not as over opulent. The novel opens with a butterfly - a symbol of metamorphosis - fluttering around the murdered Dian. Pinner plants the suggestion that the insect is Dian transformed, floating around her own dead body like a freed spirit. This is reinforced later when the butterfly lands on her Mrs. Spark's breast during the seance, the child returning to the source of maternal comfort. The insect is subsequently killed by Fat Billy. He is later accused of killing Dian, which he denies but admits he wanted to kill her. Maybe he did in killing the butterfly.
Pinner invests the novel with some memorable set pieces, such as the ritual slaughter of the horse or Cready's invasion/manipulation of Hanlin's unconscious mind. While these scenes add colour to the proceedings, they remain incidental rather than integral to the story. Cready's mind contact with Hanlin, being the only supernatural element in Ritual, particularly stands out of step with the remainder of the tale.
I would not be surprised if an enterprising publisher one day reprints it as the book that inspired The Wicker Man (I am only surprised no one already has). Until then, I would beg, borrow, perhaps not steal a copy if you can; Ritual remains a curiously engaging read.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Oddly compelling story
By Michelle S
I read "The Ritual" because I heard that it was the story that was the basis for the superb 1970s British thriller, "The Wicker Man". I had to borrow it through the interlibrary loan system at my university because the book is out of print. It was worth the effort because it was such an intriguing and amusing story.
Though I believe it was quite different from the narrative of the "The Wicker Man", there are a few similarities. First, a detective comes to a rural British village to investigate a case involving a young girl. There are strangely occult activities occurring in the village. There is an attractive young woman who attempts to seduce the officer, particularly in a passage that clearly inspired the (in)famous wall-slapping scene with Britt Eckland.
But the film diverged from the book's narrative in significant ways that, I think, made for a superior film than it would have been had the screenplay been lifted directly from this book. Specifically, the terrifying ending of "The Wicker Man" was not the same as the end of "The Ritual". In fact, I was expecting that the titular ritual would describe the same shocking conclusion as that of the film. Since it did not, it's unclear precisely what ritual the book is about, although I suspect it refers to what the investigator perceived as having happened in the village.
Regardless of its weaknesses (some corny inner monologues, awkward dialog, choppy insertion of superficially supernatural elements), this book is worth reading because it is engrossing and entertaining, even funny. It's also strangely poetic and beautiful. Finally, I also love a story with an ambiguous protagonist and that is what "The Ritual" offers.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
The Rattan Man.
By Robert Beveridge
David Pinner, Ritual (Finders Keepers, 1967)
I find it absolutely staggering that Ritual was out of print for as long as it was before being resurrected by Finders Keepers--a music collective, not a press--in 2011. After all, Ritual is the novel that Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer loosely adapted to create The Wicker Man, one of filmdom's enduring classics (despite the slight loss of luster form the abortion foisted on the world as a "reimagining" in 2006). According to Finders Keepers' preface to the new edition, Christopher Lee had optioned the book himself back in the sixties, but Lee, Hardy, and Shaffer, after the deal fell through, thought the source material was too good to pass up and, in essence, cooked up their own version by changing a few key elements. And yes, you will be able to see a good deal of similarity between the two stories.
Plot: Eight-year-old Dian Spark falls to her death while climbing a tree. Or so it would seem; why would she be climbing a tree whilst clutching a garlic blossom? Big-city inspector David Hanlin is called in to investigate, and the more the clannish villagers try to keep the incident to themselves, the harder he tries to break through their shell, until the Mayday festival reveals all to everyone involved...
Since the question that's going through your head right now is "is it as good as The Wicker Man?" I'll start by telling you the answer is no. Nor is it as good as Hardy and Shaffer's novelization of Shaffer's script (cf. review 29Mar04 ish). While there are certainly bits where the Shaffer team should have cleaved more closely to Ritual--Hanlin is far more a nuanced character than Neil Howie's paragon of Christian goodness, for example--Pinner is simply not as good a writer as Shaffer. The prose is oft times as purple as the book's cover, and for a rural town, everyone in it feels so... urbane. This is not necessarily a bad thing--if this town existed in the real world, it would be tops on my list of places to move--but it does require a great deal of suspension of disbelief. Also, there are a few places where Pinner seems to let one fact or another of one of his subplots et beyond his control. Never for a long time, and never enough to entirely derail the book, but enough to jar.
If you're a Wicker Man fan (and isn't everyone?), this is essential reading. On the other hand, if the movie's not your cup of tea, this isn't one to go seeking out. ** �
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