Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land's End
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the Cornish woods, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed the crime.
Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the county in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism.
With tales by horror luminaries such as Bram Stoker, Poe and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, this edition also features a host of underappreciated writers such as F. Tennyson Jesse and Margery Williams – said to be a strong influence on Lovecraft’s writing.
Joan Passey
Dr Joan Passey is a Senior Lecturer in the English department specialising in Victorian coasts and seascapes. Her research interests include:
Victorian literature and culture
The blue humanities
Queer ecologies
Transhistorical, transatlantic Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day
Ann Radcliffe, Wilkie Collins, Shirley Jackson
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.
