Willo the Wisp beech wood in Oxfordshire, near the director's home. Kenneth Williams provided voices for all of the characters. The principal narrator, Willo the Wisp, was a blue, floating creature drawn as a caricature of him, while the name refers to the ghostly light will-o'-the-wisp from folklore. The other main characters were Arthur the caterpillar (as a gruff cockney), Mavis Cruet, a plump, clumsy fairy with an erratic, magic wand, and the principal antagonist, Evil Edna, a witch in the form of a walking, talking television set who could zap people with her aerials. Other characters included Carwash, a snooty bespectacled cat
Will O' the Wisp (novel) perverse, and rather sterile", and wrote: "La Rochelle handles this with a certain boutique decadence and a tired resignation (the novel is subtitled 'autobiographical') which is true to the experience ... but perhaps self-defeating to the book." The book was adapted for film by Louis Malle as "The Fire Within", starring Maurice Ronet and released in 1963. It was also the basis for the 2011 Norwegian film "Oslo, August 31st", directed by Joachim Trier. Will O' the Wisp (novel) Will O' the Wisp () is a 1931 novel by the French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It has also been