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Halloweird
Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain
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In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days of the druidic Samhain, storytellers have observed the tradition of spinning tall, twisted tales of dark magic, spectral stalkings and unearthly creatures...
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A new collection of classic stories and poems celebrating Halloween's unique legacy of weird and spooky storytelling, featuring a new introduction by Johnny Mains charting the history of Halloween fiction and customs from the traditions of Samhain through to Hallowmass, All Souls' Night and beyond into the nineteenth century.
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In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days of the druidic Samhain, storytellers have observed the tradition of spinning tall, twisted tales of dark magic, spectral stalkings and unearthly creatures to mark this festival's uniquely frightening aura.
Collecting up a haunting haul of tales and a handful of weird seasonal poetry from across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new volume celebrates the riotous weird of the Halloween season through the works of legendary ghost story writers such as Edith Wharton alongside rare literary treats, rediscovered by Johnny Mains and returning to print for the first time since their original publication.
Halloweird invites readers into a world of spectral stories, embodying the haunting spirit of Halloween with literary gems that have been hidden from sight for generations.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780712355025
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 10 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Contributors:
- Edited by Johnny Mains
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 149.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Johnny Mains is an author and award-winning editor renowned for recovering lost stories from the archives. Among the many volumes he has edited are two collections of lost women's ghost stories for Black Shuck Books (A Suggestion of Ghosts and An Obscurity of Ghosts), the collection Bound in Blood for Titan, and two collections of strange fiction for the British Library: Celtic Weird and Scotland the Strange.
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