All of the women in the village capable of bearing children find that they are now pregnant. And as the following days pass by, people start to forget about the strange occurrence that was now simply being referred to as the ‘Dayout’.īut, after a few months pass by, a new worrying development starts to emerge. Furthermore, there seemed to be no obvious lasting effects. The people of Midwich were waking from their daylong sleep. The entire village appeared to be trapped within a strange invisible blanket, with everyone caught inside it remaining unconscious.Īnd then, as suddenly as this strange invisible bubble had descended, its effects all of a sudden disappeared. It appeared that anyone attempting to go anywhere near the village would instantly succumb to a deep and sudden unconsciousness. Something that no one could put any reasoning to. Something very strange had happened in Midwich during the night they had been away. However, upon arriving back at Midwich, they find that the roads into the sleepy village they call home had all been closed off by the police. Richard Gayford and his wife, Janet, had been away in London for the night of the 26th September. The story was later adapted into the film ‘Village Of The Damned’ both in 1960 and then again in 1995. First published back in 1957, ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’ formed the seventh published novel by British author John Wyndham.
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