Out of the Past -

Out of the Past

Tales of Haunting History

Aaron Worth (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2024
British Library Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7123-5560-5 (ISBN)
16,55 inkl. MwSt
"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.

AARON WORTH is a professor at Boston University, a celebrated editor and a short story writer. He has edited the Tales of the Weird collections Randalls Round and The Night Wire, as well as anthologies by Vernon Lee and Arthur Machen for Oxford University Press.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie British Library Tales of the Weird ; 48
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 190 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Krimi / Thriller / Horror Horror
ISBN-10 0-7123-5560-X / 071235560X
ISBN-13 978-0-7123-5560-5 / 9780712355605
Zustand Neuware
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