Out of the Past : Tales of Haunting History Paperback / softback
Edited by Aaron Worth
Part of the British Library Tales of the Weird series
Paperback / softback
Description
"Come inside, my bonny witch-finder. Here is shelter for thee..."A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth-century Italy.
A witch-finder's great triumph is also the herald of his own doom in Civil War Britain.
A prisoner's fate at the hands of the Inquisition in sixteenth-century Mexico leads to an encounter with the bestial and bizarre beneath the waves. Summoning eleven stories chosen for their uncanny portrayals of weird history, this collection presents a dark timeline of grim visions harking from plague-racked England to revolutionary France and culminating in the last gasps of the nineteenth century.
Including stories by the greatest writers of history-turned-horrifying such as Marjorie Bowen, Frederick Cowles, Vernon Lee and the lost genius Vincent O'Sullivan, this volume is capped by two of Aaron Worth's own tales of Victorian macabre alongside a chiller evoking M.
R. James by the adapter of his stories for radio, Sheila Hodgson.
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:British Library Publishing
- Publication Date:21/04/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780712355605
Information
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:British Library Publishing
- Publication Date:21/04/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780712355605
