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

Emily Alder (Curatore)

Jimmy Packham (Curatore)

British Library Publishing, 2022

'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.

• Curatore: Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham
• Editore: British Library Publishing
• Collana: British Library Tales of the Weird
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 190 x 130 mm
• EAN: 9780712354219

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