British Weird

For fans of the best-selling Women’s Weird anthology comes British Weird, a new installment of stories by British writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic.

Curated by James Machin, the author of Palgrave Gothic's Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880 – 1939, who details the background of these stories in the Weird tradition, identifying their use of peculiarly British preoccupations in supernatural short fiction. Immense church effigies walk at night, man find a prehistoric tribe in the Scottish Highlands, canoeing on a haunted river—these are some examples of Weird stories that are uniquely British in style and content.

Authors include:

E.F. Benson (“Caterpillars”)
Algernon Blackwood (“The Willows”)
John Buchan (“No-Man’s Land”)
Mary Butts “Mappa Mundi”)
L.A. Lewis (“Lost Keep”)
Arthur Machen (“N”)
John Metcalfe (“The Bad Lands”)
Edith Nesbit (“Man-Size in a Marble”)
Eleanor Scott (“Randalls Round”)

This collection is certain to thrill, entertain, and chill any fan of classic Weird fiction.

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Release date: October 27, 2020 (Handheld Press)

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James Machin

James Machin is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, and an Associate Tutor at the Royal College of Art, where he teaches on the Critical and Historical Studies programme. He also teaches the MA and BA Victorian Literature units at the University of Bedfordshire. He is the author of Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. James is co-editor of Faunus, the Arthur Machen journal, and has recently co-edited Of Mud and Flame (Strange Attractor/MIT, 2019), a critical anthology of writing on cult 1970s television drama Penda’s Fen. Other recent publications include two essays in the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (2020). He also writes short fiction, with stories published most recently in The Shadow Booth, Weirdbook, and Supernatural Tales. A long-standing fan of Conan Doyle’s supernatural and detective fiction, James developed a keen interest in his medical fiction when working on a short postdoctoral research project for the Wellcome Trust in 2017, and is delighted to now be working on this new edition of The Stark Munro Letters for Edinburgh UP.