Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
From the unsettling expanses of mud flats to foreboding cliffs and treacherous reefs, the coasts of the British Isles have provided inspiration for storytellers for millennia, creating a rich literary and cultural significance for these spaces in between the land and sea. The shoreline can be a destination for pleasure, but it is also the rife with peril. In this new collection, the founders of the Haunted Shores Research Network have curated a chilling literary tour of the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, including tales of woeful shipwreck, lighthouse terrors and uncanny revenants amid the bustle of the harbourside.
Emily Alder
Dr Emily Alder researches literature and science, environmental humanities, Gothic, and Weird fiction, particularly in the literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, and is noted for her contributions to the field of Nautical Gothic through publications such as ‘Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic’ (2017). She is the author of Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle, a monograph published in 2020 with Palgrave Macmillan, and numerous articles and chapters about animals, the sea, and environmentalism in Weird, Gothic, and science fiction.
Emily is co-convenor of the Haunted Shores Research Network and project leader for Scottish Shores: Gothic Coastal Environments. She is Membership Secretary of the British Society for Literature & Science, and General Editor of Gothic Studies, the journal of the International Gothic Association.
At Edinburgh Napier University, Emily is a member of the Centre for Arts, Media, & Culture and the Centre for Conservation & Restoration Science.
With an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Newcastle University and a PhD from Edinburgh Napier, Emily is Lecturer in English Literature and Programme Leader for BA (Hons) English in the School of Arts & Creative Industries. Emily teaches undergraduate modules on nineteenth-century literature, environmental literature and film, and the Gothic.
British Library Tales of the Weird
British Library Tales of the Weird consists of fifty-seven books, and the series is set to expand with the upcoming release of two more books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
