Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles: 31 (British Library Tales of the Weird) - Couverture souple

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9780712354219: Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles: 31 (British Library Tales of the Weird)
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ISBN 10 : 0712354212 ISBN 13 : 9780712354219
Editeur : British Library Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam, and the waves, white-crested, came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose. From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling shingles and silted estuaries, the coasts of the British Isles have stoked the imaginations of storytellers for millennia, lending a rich literary significance to these spaces between land and sea. For those who choose to explore these shores, generations of ghosts, sea-spirits, fairies and tentacled monsters come and go with the tide. This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man, including haunting pieces by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bram Stoker and Charlotte Riddell.

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À propos de l'auteur

Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham and Joan Passey are the founders of the Haunted Shores Research Network, an organisation established in 2020 to explore Gothic and horror literature based around or inspired by coasts, aiming to define and celebrate the particular appeal and characteristics of the littoral weird.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A mysterious radio signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. Photography and X-ray evidence suggests there may be some truth to a sculptor’s claim that he has created a god. A spectral projection sows terror amid the flickering light of the cinema. From the whispering wires of the telegraph and ghostly images of the daguerreotype to the disembodied voices of the phonograph and radio, the new technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave their users miraculous new powers – and new nightmares. After all, if Graham Bell’s magical device could connect us with loved ones a half a world away, what was to stop it from reaching out and touching the dead – or something worse?

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Éditeur
British Library Publishing
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0712354212
ISBN 13 
9780712354219
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Alder Emily, Packham Jimmy, Passey Joan
Coordonnées du fabricant
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