Our Haunted Shores : Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles

Packham, Jimmy (EDT); Napier, Emily (EDT); Passey, Joan (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0712354212 / ISBN 13: 9780712354219

Edité par British Library Publishing, 2022

N° de réf. du vendeur 43788058-n

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.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Our Haunted Shores : Tales from the Coasts ...
Éditeur : British Library Publishing
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New