Out of the Past

Tales of Haunting History

Aaron Worth

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British Library Publishing
21 March 2024

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic horror & ghost stories; Historical fiction

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

“Come inside, my bonny witch-finder. Here is shelter for thee…”

A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth-century Italy. A witch-finder’s great triumph is also the herald of his own doom in Civil War Britain. A prisoner’s fate at the hands of the Inquisition in sixteenth-century Mexico leads to an encounter with the bestial and bizarre beneath the waves.

Summoning eleven stories chosen for their uncanny portrayals of weird history, this collection presents a dark timeline of grim visions harking from plague-racked England to revolutionary France and culminating in the last gasps of the nineteenth century.

Including stories by the greatest writers of history-turned-horrifying such as Marjorie Bowen, Frederick Cowles, Vernon Lee and the lost genius Vincent O’Sullivan, this volume is capped by two of Aaron Worth’s own tales of Victorian macabre alongside a chiller evoking M. R. James by the adapter of his stories for radio, Sheila Hodgson.

Edited by: Aaron Worth
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 47
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712355605
ISBN 10: 071235560X
Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aaron Worth is professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He introduced and edited the Tales of the Weird anthologies Randalls Round and The Night Wire, and was the author of Imperial Media, a study of how advances in media and technology shaped the British literary imagination in the late nineteenth century.

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Out of the Past

Tales of Haunting History

Aaron Worth

$30.99

Paperback

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