| Description |
xii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Laura Silver Bell / Sheridan Le Fanu -- Man-size in marble / Edith Nesbit -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- Pallinghurst Barrow / Grant Allen -- Devil of the marsh / H.B. Marriott-Watson -- The sin-eater / Fiona Macleod -- The shining pyramid / Arthur Machen -- The Black Reaper / Bernard Capes -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- Out of the sea / A.C Benson -- Gavon's eve / E.F. Benson -- A witch-burning / Mrs Baillie Reynolds -- The music on the hill / Saki -- The tarn of sacrifice / Algernon Blackwood -- How Pan came to Little Ingleton / Margery Lawrence -- All Hallows / Walter de la Mare -- Randalls Round / Eleanor Scott -- The first sheaf / H.R. Wakefield -- CWM Garon / L.T.C. Rolt -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The lady on the grey / John Collier -- Bind your hair / Robert Aickman. |
| Summary |
"This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. These twenty-three stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches' curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape combine to remind us that the shiny, modern, urban world might not have all the answers"-- Back cover. |
| Note |
First published in 2021. Paperback edition published in 2022. |
| Subject |
Horror tales.
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Witches -- Fiction.
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Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
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Spirits -- Fiction.
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Horror tales. (OCoLC)fst00960387
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wells, Richard (Art director), illustrator, selector.
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Myers, Benjamin, 1976- writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781800180611 |
| ISBN |
9781800180604 (hardcover) |
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1800180608 (hardcover) |
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9781800181823 (paperback) |
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1800181825 (paperback) |
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