Amara Thornton & Katy Soar [eds.] - Strange Relics

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Out now ....

Amara Thornton & Katy Soar [eds.] - Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology & the Supernatural 1895-1954 (Handheld Press, Sept 2022)

Boris Dolgov

Acknowledgements
Amara Thornton & Katy Soar - Introduction

Arthur Machen - The Shining Pyramid
Arthur Conan Doyle - Through the Veil
E F Benson - The Ape
H. D. Everett - The Next Heir
M. R. James - View From A Hill
Margery Lawrence - Curse of the Stillborn
Eleanor Scott - The Cure
John Buchan - Ho! The Merry Masons
Algernon Blackwood - Roman Remains
Dorothy Quick - Cracks of Time
Rose Macaulay - Whitewash
Alan J B Wace - The Golden Ring

Kate MacDonald - Notes on the Text

Blurb:

Handheld Press presents a new classic short story anthology, combining the supernatural and archaeology. Never before have so many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing shivers down the spine. Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts, hauntings, and possession, all from archaeological excavation. From a Neolithic rite to Egyptian religion to Roman remains to medieval masonry to some uncanny ceramic tiles in a perfectly ordinary American sun lounge, the relics in these stories are, frankly, horrible.

Handheld Press

[andydecker]

Nice idea, but a lot of the stories are a bit over-familiar, or?

[Kieron]

Oct 21, 2022 13:06:45 GMT andydecker said:

Nice idea, but a lot of the stories are a bit over-familiar, or?

That was exactly my thought when a certain online retailer recommended the book to me. Nonetheless, I'll probably spring for it in a moment of weakness.