Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen
A seaside honeymoon holiday is plagued by the mystery of bells which never stop ringing – and the uncanny force which answers the call.The echoes of undying druidic rites spell disaster at a Norfolk golf course. An ancient relic found on the Suffolk coast summons a relentless spectral pursuer to its discoverer.
Welcome to East Anglia, one of the heartlands of Britishstrange and ghostly fiction whose mind-stretching expanses, wide, yawning skies and disorientating tidal fens have bewitched generations of writers.
Unearthing seventeen short tales set in Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire from the 1900s to the 2010s, Edward Parnell’s selection unites eternal classics by M. R. James, Robert Aickman and Marjorie Bowen with modern chillers from Daisy Johnson and Matthew Holness to offer a sweeping view across the dark horizons of East Anglia’s eeriest literature.
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Edward Parnell
Edward Parnell is the author of the narrative non-fiction 'Ghostland' (Harper Collins), shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley 2020 Award for memoir. He currently lives just outside Edinburgh and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He has been the recipient of an Escalator Award from the National Centre for Writing and a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. 'The Listeners' (2014) was his first novel, and was the winner of the Rethink New Novels Prize. 'Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen' (2024) is the first anthology of ghost stories that he's edited for the British Library's 'Tales of the Weird' series.
British Library Tales of the Weird
The British Library Tales of the Weird series revives and unearths classic strange fiction from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the form of novels, single-author collections and thematic anthologies, complete with new introductions and fascinating notes by expert editors.
British Library Tales of the Weird consists of seventy books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
