Our Haunted Shores
Our Haunted Shores
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Part of British Library Tales Of The Weird series
Summary
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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Our Haunted Shores by Emily Alder
'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.
Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham and Joan Passey are the founders of the Haunted Shores Research Network, an organisation exploring horror and Gothic literature based around or inspired by coasts, and aiming to pinpoint the particular appeal and characteristics of the littoral weird. Established in 2020, the research exhibited at the Network's first symposium in 2021 touched on diverse topics from Victorian smuggling narratives to the enduring appeal of Kaiju cinema.
SKU | Unavailable |
ISBN 13 | 9780712354219 |
ISBN 10 | 0712354212 |
Title | Our Haunted Shores |
Author | Emily Alder |
Series | British Library Tales Of The Weird |
Condition | Unavailable |
Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | British Library Publishing |
Year published | 2022-06-23 |
Number of pages | 320 |
Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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