Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall
As the storm booms out in the bay and the waves smash against the rocks, the masts of a cursed and spectral vessel are drawing near. As the mists roll over Bodmin moor, the moonlight reveals a night alive with spirits. Welcoming a fresh roster of seaside spectres, tin-mine terrors and holiday haunters, this return to the bountiful fold of Cornish horror fiction features more lost classics from Victorian periodicals alongside atmospheric tales from the great twentieth-century writers of the Cornish weird such as Mary Williams, Mary Butts and Sabine Baring-Gould.
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
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 sixty-one books — series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
