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HalloweirdClassic Stories from the Season of Samhain

British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares
by Johnny Mains
Halloweird: Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares) by Johnny Mains
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In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days of the druidic Samhain, storytellers have observed the tradition of spinning tall, twisted tales of dark magic, spectral stalkings and unearthly creatures to mark this festival’ s uniquely frightening aura. Collecting up a haunting haul of tales and a handful of weird seasonal poetry from across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new volume celebrates the riotous weird of the Halloween season through the works of legendary ghost story writers such as Edith Wharton alongside rare literary treats, rediscovered by Johnny Mains and returning to print for the first time since their original publication.

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HorrorWeird FictionPsychological HorrorGothic HorrorShort StoriesAnthologyHoliday/SeasonalGhostsHalloween Fiction
Release date: October 10, 2024 (British Library Publishing)

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Johnny Mains

Johnny Mains

Johnny Mains is a British Fantasy Award-winning editor and genre researcher. He was Project Editor on the 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, created the critically acclaimed series Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians (co-edited with Robin Ince) and has spent the last five years deep in the archives, uncovering ‘lost’ stories by notable authors such as Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Oscar Cook and Daphne Du Maurier, among others.

British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares

Discover Gilded Nightmares, a hardback collection devoted to gothic and unsettling fiction. These British Library editions explore dark imagination and eerie storytelling through striking design. Created for readers who enjoy classic tales with a darker edge.

British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares consists of 18 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

The Tell-Tale Heart (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Playing with Fire: The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Open Door: And Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Whisperers and Other Stories (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Little Blue Flames (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales from Storied Lands (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Bewitched: The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Burial of the Rats: And Other Tales of the Macabre by Bram Stoker (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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Halloweird: Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Dead of Summer: Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
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