British Library Weird Stuff Checklist

[humgoo]

Last Updated: 25 November 2024

Because who doesn't love a list?!

The dates are based on data found on Amazon UK. Not sure if the numbers (for the "Tales of the Weird" series) are officially assigned by the publisher. Sometimes they appear in the Amazon data, sometime they don't. In cases of their absences or contradictions, a number is assigned tentatively according to the book's publication date.

"British Library Tales of the Weird" series:

2018
1. Mike Ashley (ed.) - From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea
2. Andrew Smith (ed.) - Haunted Houses: Two Novels by Charlotte Riddell
3. Mike Ashley (ed.) - Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories
4. Greg Buzwell (ed.) - Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End
5. Tanya Kirk (ed.) - Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings

2019
6. Mike Ashley (ed.) - The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways
7. Greg Buzwell (ed.) - The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
8. Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson
9. Mike Ashley (ed.) - Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy
10. Daisy Butcher (ed.) - Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
11. Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science
12. Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood
13. John Miller (ed.) - Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink

2020
14. Mike Ashley (ed.) - The Outcast: and Other Dark Tales by E F Benson
15. Mike Ashley (ed.) - A Phantom Lover: and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee
16. Elizabeth Dearnley (ed.) - Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City
17. John Miller (ed.) - Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain
18. Mike Ashley (ed.) - Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird
19. Tanya Kirk (ed.) - Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season

2021
20. Henry Bartholomew (ed.) - Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
21. Kevan Manwaring (ed.) - Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes
22. Jen Baker (ed.) - Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth
23. Daisy Butcher, Janette Leaf (eds.) - Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
24. Joan Passey (ed.) - Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land's End
25. Daniel Pietersen (ed.) - I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist
26. Aaron Worth (ed.) - Randalls Round: Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott
27. Lucy Evans, Tanya Kirk (eds.) - Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Night

2022
28. Mike Ashley (ed.) - Shadows on the Wall: Dark Tales by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
29. Mike Ashley (ed.) - The Ghost Slayers: Classic Tales of Occult Detection
30. Aaron Worth (ed.) - The Night Wire and Other Tales of Weird Media
31. Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham, Joan Passey (eds.) - Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
32. Michael Wheatley (ed.) - The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan
33. Manon Burz-Labrande (ed.) - Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird
34. Tanya Kirk (ed.) - Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights

35. John Miller (ed.) - Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales from the Ends of the Earth

2023

36. Mike Ashley (ed.) - The Flaw in the Crystal: And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair

37. Mike Ashley (ed.) - The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce

38. Fiona Snailham (ed.) - Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny
39. Zara-Louise Stubbs (ed.) - The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird

40. Michael Wheatley (ed.) - The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent

41. Pam Lock (ed.) - Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

42. William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland

43. Alasdair Richmond (ed.) - Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms

44. Katy Soar (ed.) - Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

2024

45. Jo Parsons (ed.) - Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love

46. Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension

47. Mike Ashley (ed.) - Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird

48. Aaron Worth (ed.) - Out of the Past: Tales of Haunting History

49. William Hope Hodgson - The Night Land

50. Elizabeth Dearnley (ed.) - Deadly Dolls: Haunting Tales of the Uncanny

51. Algernon Blackwood - The Human Chord

52. Edward Parnell (ed.) - Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen

53. Weird Walk (ed.) - The Haunted Trail: Classic Tales of the Rambling Weird

54. Craig Lamont (ed.) - The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes

55. Marjorie Bowen - The Haunted Vintage

Forthcoming

56. Emily Vincent (ed.) - Summoned to the Séance: Spirit tales from Beyond the Veil

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"Gilded Nightmares" (Hardback) series:

2016
Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales

2018
Roger Luckhurst (ed.) - The Ghost Stories of M. R. James
Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft

2020
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales

2021
Margaret Oliphant (edited by Mike Ashley) - The Open Door: and Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen
Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu
Mike Ashley (ed.) - Playing with Fire: The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle
Elizabeth Dearnley (ed.) - Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae

2022
Algernon Blackwood (edited by Mike Ashley) - The Whisperers and Other Stories: A Lifetime of the Supernatural
Nick Freeman (ed.) - The Little Blue Flames and Other Uncanny Tales by A. M. Burrage

Johnny Mains (ed.) - Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology

2023

Nicole C. Dittmer (ed.) - Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women

Johnny Mains (ed.) - Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales from Storied Lands

Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - The Burial of the Rats: And Other Tales of the Macabre by Bram Stoker

2024

Maria Giakaniki (ed.) - Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime

Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins

Johnny Mains (ed). - Halloweird: Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain

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Non-series:

2000
Neil Wilson - Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950

2001
Ramsey Campbell (ed.) - Meddling with Ghosts: Stories in the Tradition of M. R. James

2014
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales [reissued in the "Tales of the Weird" series in 2019]

2016
Andrew Smith (ed.) - Lost in a Pyramid & Other Classic Mummy Stories
Tanya Kirk (ed.) - The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories

Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - Horror: A Literary History

2017
Walter de la Mare - Out of the Deep and Other Supernatural Tales
Eleanor Dobson (ed.) - Silver Bullets: Classic Werewolf Stories

[toff]

"Uncanny Gastronomic"! I wonder if any actually contain recipes.  I've seen a number of ghost stories involving chess that include diagrams and moves.

[dem]

A brilliant piece of work. Thanks so much for doing this, Cheong!

Later: some more TOC's


4. Greg Buzwell [ed.] - Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End, 2018.

5. Tanya Kirk [ed.] - Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings, 2018.

9. Mike Ashley [ed.] - Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy, 2019

19. Tanya Kirk [ed.] - Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season, 2020

22. Jen Baker [ed.] - Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales Of Spectral Youth, 2021

24. Joan Passey [ed.]- Cornish Horrors: Tales From The Land's End, 2021

25. Daniel Petersen [ed.] I am Stone - The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist, 2021

31. Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham, Joan Passey [eds.] - Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles, 2022

34. Tanya Kirk [ed.] - Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights, 2022

[dem]

Enrique Bernardou, Promethean Horrors: Luca Ortis, Tales of the Tattooed.

Xavier Aldana Reyes (ed.) - Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science (British Library, 2019)

Introduction
Acknowledgements

E. T. A. Hoffman - The Sandman
Mary Shelley - The Mortal Immortal; A Tale
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappacini's Daughter
Edgar Allan Poe - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - The Secret of the Scaffold
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Body-Snatcher
L. T. Meade - The Blue Laboratory
E. Nesbit - The Five Senses
H. P. Lovecraft - From Beyond
George - Langelaan - The Fly

John Miller (ed.) - Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink (British Library, 2019)

Introduction
Acknowledgements

James Payn - Two Delicate Cases
T. W. Speight - The Green Phial
W. W. Jacobs - A Marked Man
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews - The Tattoo
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - The Tattooer
Saki - The Background
John Chilton - The Tattooed Leg
Albert Payson Terhune - Branded
Arthur P. Hankins - The Tattooed Eye
Arthur Tuckerman - The Starfish Tattoo
Frederick Ames Coates - The Secret Tattoo
William E. Barrett - The Tattooed Card
Roald Dahl - Skin

Sandra Gómez, Heavy Weather: Mauricio Villamayor, Randall's Round.

Kevan Manwaring (ed.) - Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes (British Library, 2021)

Introduction
Acknowledgements

Mary Shelley - History of a Six Week Tour [extract]
Herman Melville - The Lightning-rod Man
Edgar Allan Poe - A Descent into the Maelstrom
Richard Jeffries - The Great Snow
E. F. Benson - The Horror Horn
Algernon Blackwood - May Day Eve
W. F. Harvey - August Heat
Doris Lessing - A Mild Attack of Locusts
William Hope Hodgson - Through the Vortex of a Cyclone
Jonas Lie - The Wind-Gnome
Adam Chase - Summer Snow Storm
Margaret St. Clair - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes
Gerald Vance - Monsoons of Death
M. P. Shiel - The Purple Cloud [extract]
Daphne du Maurier - The Birds

Eleanor Scott - Randall's Round: Nine Nightmares (British Library, 2021)

Aaron Worth - Introduction
Note from the Publisher

Randall's Round

Foreword

Randalls Round
The Twelve Apostles
Celui-Là
The Room
The Cure
The Tree
At Simmel Acres Farm
"Will Ye No' Come Back Again?"
The Old Lady

Two Stories by N. Dennett

Unburied Bane
The Menhir

Manon Burz-Labrande [ed.] - Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (British Library, Sept. 2022)

Mag Ruhig

Introduction
A Note from the Publisher

I. "I HEARD A NOISE, SURE ENOUGH": LIVING WITH AUDIBLE PRESENCES

Florence Marryat - The Invisible Tenants of Rushmere
B. M. Croker - The First Comer
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - The Day of my Death

II · "I HAD HEARD THE WORDS WITH PAINFUL DISTINCTNESS": PERCEIVING GHOSTLY VOICES

Unknown - The Spirit's Whisper
Algernon Blackwood - A Case of Eavesdropping
Annie Trumbull Slosson - A Speakin' Ghost
H. D. Everett - The Whispering Wall
Thomas Street Millington - No Living Voice

III · "I JUMPED AWAKE TO THE FURIOUS RINGING OF MY BELL": SONOROUS OBJECTS AND HAUNTING TECHNOLOGY

Edith Wharton - The Lady's Maid's Bell
Barry Pain - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit
Rosa Mulholland - The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly
H. D. Everett - Over the Wires

IV · SOUNDS AND SILENCE: ACOUSTIC WEIRD BEYOND THE GHOSTLY

Edgar Allan Poe - Siope — A Fable
M. P. Sheil - The House of Sounds

Blurb:

‘Darkness now was around me – and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.’

The violent peals of a disconnected bell in the night; a trudging footfall in the hush of an abandoned manor; the whisper of a deathly voice in the ear: uncanny sounds remain the most frightening heralds of danger and terror in supernatural fiction. Gathered here are fourteen tales which resonate with the unique note of fear struck by weird happenings experienced through the aural sense.

Divided into four sections exploring noises from invisible presences, ghostly voices, possessed technology and the power of extreme levels of sound or silence, this collection pulses with pioneering pieces from B. M. Croker, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton and M. P. Shiel alongside haunting obscurities from the British Library collections.

[cauldronbrewer]

Oct 25, 2022 4:03:20 GMT humgoo said:

Because who doesn't love a list?!

This is great! Thanks, Humgoo and Dem. Some of the upcoming titles look intriguing.

[dem]

Two more, added mainly as an excuse to showcase more of Sandra Gomez's morbid-enchanting cover artwork.

Sandra Gómez

Mike Ashley [ed.] - E. F. Benson: The Outcast and Other Dark Tales (British Library, 2020)

Mike Ashley - Introduction

Dummy on a Dahabeah
A Winter Morning
Between the Lights
The Thing in the Hall
The Passenger
The Light in the Garden
The Outcast
The Top Landing
The Face
The Corner House
By the Sluice
Pirates
The Secret Garden
The Flint Knife
The Bath Chair
The Dance
Billy Comes Through

Story Sources

Mike Ashley [ed.] - A Phantom Lover: And Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee (British Library, 2020)

Mike Ashley - Introduction: Possessed by the Past

The Enchanted Woods
Winthrop's Adventure
A Phantom Lover
Amour Dure
A Wicked Voice
The Legend of Madame Krasinska
Marsayas in Flanders
Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child

Story Sources

[andydecker]

I like the cover for Lee. It really catches the time.

[dem]

Out now.

John Miller [ed] - Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World's Ends (British Library, 10 Nov. 2022)

Sandra Gomez

John Miller - Introduction
A Note From The Publisher

North
James Hogg - The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon
Harriett Prescott Spofford - The Moonstone Mass
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Captain of the "Polestar"
John Buchan - Skule Skerry
Idwal Jones - The Third Interne
Aviaq Johnston - Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq; The Haunted Blizzard

South
Hamilton Drummond - A Secret of the South Pole
John Martin Leahy - In Amundsen's Tent
Sophie Wenzel Ellis - Creatures of the Light
Mordred Weir - Bride of the Antartic
Henry Kuttner - Ghost
Malcolm M. Ferguson - The Polar Vortex

Story Source

Blurb:

"As I moved with stiff legs along the reefs I slipped into the water. It was cold beyond belief — the very quintessence of deathly Arctic ice, so cold, that it seemed to sear and bleach the skin."

Inspired by ground-breaking expeditions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of the weird began to construct a literary Arctic and Antarctic in which terrors lay undiscovered in the ice and gateways to bizarre hidden worlds lay waiting. From lurid Arctic narratives of life amongst polar bears to tales of ghostly visitations within the wind-blown wilds of the southern continent, this new collection uncovers a wealth of neglected material from this niche of literature obsessed with the limits of human experience.

Featuring tales rife with aliens, twisted science and madness spanning from 1837-1946, this anthology also includes a gem of twenty-first century Arctic horror to trace the enduring lure of these sublime and uncanny spaces at the ends of the Earth.

[The Lurker In The Shadows]

Worth noting that all British Library Fiction is available 3 for the price of 2 on the BL website:
shop.bl.uk/collections/british-library-fiction

[Shrink Proof]

It's only when someone makes a list (thanks!) that you can see how much work the British Library has put into all this. And how much more money I'm going to be tempted to spend. The polar ice collection of chillers (sorry) is currently top of my list.

[humgoo]

Nov 12, 2022 15:05:38 GMT dem said:

Aviaq Johnston - Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq; The Haunted Blizzard

[...] this anthology also includes a gem of twenty-first century Arctic horror

It's interesting to see them throw in a contemporary story. Will be fun if this trend continues.

[dem]

These to look out for over coming months. A*az*n uk currently listing two #39's, so we expect that will be righted soon. TOC's as and when we get them. Does anyone have those for Holy Ghosts?

# 39 Zara-Louise Stubbs (ed.) - The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird (British Library, June 2023)

Blurb:
'Well,' he said, looking at the waiter and giving him a sly wink, 'all I can tell you is that I think it was pig’s meat.'
'You mean you’re not sure?'
'One can never be sure.'

A man is tortured by the lurking fear that he lives among a society of cannibals. Visitors to the hottest restaurant in town discover the arcane origins of its sublime soup. A groom’s obsession with the teeth of his betrothed prompts a sickening end to a Gothic romance.

The significance of food and eating in storytelling traditions dates back to fairy tales, folklore and beyond, with the capacity for the edible to transform or to cause otherworldly effects sometimes inspiring wonder, but often touching on a deep-rooted fear. Exploring themes of body horror, consumption and myriad forms of strange eating, this new collection includes a feast of bitesize tales from masters of the macabre such as Shirley Jackson and Roald Dahl – alongside lesser-known oddities from the British Library’s collections – to digest the significance of the uncanny gastronomic.

# 39 Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (British Library, July 2023)

Blurb:
'Where grow pines and firs amain, Under Stars, sans heat or rain, Chief of Hammand, ‘ware thy Bane!'

The Hammand family have been hounded by an ancient curse for generations; now, after the close of the First World War, the only two survivors are Oliver and Swanhild. When Oliver is beset by a creature in the forest surrounding the Hammand estate, the siblings resolve to meet the curse head on before it seals their fate in the form of a violent death. Enlisting the service of the occult detective Luna Bartendale, the investigation begins to unshackle the Hammands from their doom, and the stage is set for battle with an immortal force of savage horror.

First published in 1922, The Undying Monster secured Jessie Douglas Kerruish's place in the history of British Weird fiction. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1942, and remains one of the definitive twentieth-century tales of lycanthropy and occult detection.

# 40. Michael Wheatley [ed] - The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent (British Library, Aug. 2023)

Blurb:
'All about us on the stairs was some of the most exquisite statuary I have ever seen... save for a few pieces carved in the form of some hideous beast, the like of which I have never seen on earth...'

The sunken continent of Atlantis has dwelt in the collective imagination of writers and artists for centuries; a bejewelled paradox bubbling with themes of irrecoverable loss and quixotic faith in its rediscovery. This new anthology collects stories from the vast, yet seldom recognised, vault of Atlantean fiction from the Golden Age of Weird Tales magazine, presented in four core sections, perfect for diving into:
- Atlantis Rediscovered – in which the ruins of ancient Atlantis are found again.
- Atlantis Revisited – tales of Deep Time, in which the descendants of Atlanteans re-live the experiences of ancestors.
- Atlantis Resurrected – in which Atlantis never sunk at all but remains at large in the world.
- Atlantis Reimagined – in which the continent is fertile ground for experiments in Weird Fantasy and beyond.

# 41. Pam Lock [ed] - Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks (British Library, Sept. 2023)

Blurb:
'Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...'

With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama and a chaser of the cautionary kind, tales of drink and drunkenness can be found in a well-stocked cabinet of Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction, reflecting an anxiety about the impact of alcohol and intoxicants in society, as well as an acknowledgment of their influence on humans’ perception of reality.

Featuring drink-fuelled classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s 'The Body Snatcher' alongside obscurities from periodicals such as Blackwood’s Magazine, this new collection offers a (somewhat poisoned) chalice of dark and stormy short fiction, brimming with the weird, the grotesque, the entertaining and the outlandish.

# 42. William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland (British Library, Oct. 2023)

Blurb:
'A few minutes, it seemed, and I had risen above the great mountains – floating, alone, afar in the redness. At a tremendous distance below, the arena showed, dimly; with the mighty House looking no larger than a tiny spot of green. The Swine-thing was no longer visible.

In the damp and neglected heart of a ruin in the wilds of the west of Ireland, a manuscript is discovered entitled The House on the Borderland. Penned by an enigmatic Recluse, the contents spin an account of an uncanny and isolated existence, which unfolds into a hallucinatory and mind-wracking journey into cosmic revelations and encounters with beasts and beings without name. For the Recluse seems to have discovered another land and in it another House; a jade-green double of his own in a realm in which the bounds of reality are untethered.

First published in 1908, this masterpiece of Horror and the uncanny was a direct influence on the imagination of H P Lovecraft and was described by Terry Pratchett as 'the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer'.

# 43 Alasdair Richmond [ed.] - Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms (British Library, Nov. 2023)

Blurb:
'He spoke of a new kind of terremauvaise, of strange regions, connected, indeed, with definite geographical limits upon the earth, yet somehow apart from them and beyond them.'

A youth comes to a literal fork in his road where all three paths contrive to end in the same violent fate; a beleaguered man finds his neuroses oddly mirrored in a dark parallel world co-existing with our own; Kaiser Wilhelm II, rather than abdicate, leads the High Seas Fleet on one last voyage.

Treading the path of that which never existed (in our reality, at least) and the otherworlds bordering our own version of Earth, this new collection brings together tales of strange parallel destinies, unexplored forks in humanity’s history, twisted pocket dimensions and forays into unsettling regions of Dark Fantasy.

# 44 Katy Soar [ed.] - Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites (British Library, Dec. 2023)

Blurb:
In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. 'What a silly little girl,' the nurse had said. 'It's only the... stone.'

Standing stones, stone circles, tumps, barrows and ancient clearings still remain across the British Isles, and though their specific significance may be obscured by the passing of time, their strange allure and mysterious energy persist in our collective consciousness.

Assembled here in tribute to these relics of a lost age are accounts of terrifying spirits haunting Stonehenge itself, stories of awful fates for those who impose modernity on the sacred sites and grim tales in which unwitting trespassers into the eternal rites of pagan worship find themselves part of an enduring legacy of blood. To represent the breadth of the sub-genre, authors include Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood and Rosalie Muspratt alongside lesser-known writers from the periodicals and journals of the British Library collections.

[andydecker]

Circle of Stones is a nice topic. Could be interesting.

[cauldronbrewer]

Circles of Stone looks promising--I like the cover art. I could also be tempted by The Lure of Atlantis and Dead Drunk. "The Archfiend's Fingers" (Kirk Mashburn) would be a good story for the latter.

[dem]

Jun 1, 2023 19:27:16 GMT cauldronbrewer said:

Circles of Stone looks promising--I like the cover art. I could also be tempted by The Lure of Atlantis and Dead Drunk. "The Archfiend's Fingers" (Kirk Mashburn) would be a good story for the latter.

Circle of Stone, Dead Drunk and, if it includes the Ada Buisson story I'm thinking of, Holy Ghosts (due 8th of this month).