The Dead of Summer

Name: The Dead of Summer
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Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer

Series: British Library Gilded Nightmares

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May Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve or the Summer Solstice. Tales of these fated days and nights, and their riotous rituals and feasts, have rung down the centuries, and yet in today's world those that observe their ancient ways are few.Setting out on a... Read More

Format: Hardback

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The Dead of Summer

A unique collection focusing on an important but overlooked stretch of the ritual year, and the surprising wealth of fiction devoted to the uncanny and liminal time of May Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and the Summer Solstice.

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Setting out on a mission to re-weird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with a collection of tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal to welcome the summer and raise the cry: Wyrd is Icumen in!

Series: British Library Gilded Nightmares

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780712355285

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: British Library Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Johnny Mains

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 149.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Collections

Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Series: British Library Gilded Nightmares

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.