British Weird: Selected Short Fiction 1893 - 1937 Machin James
Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Women's Weird, British Weird is a new anthology of classic Weird short fiction by British writers, first published between the…
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Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Women's Weird, British Weird is a new anthology of classic Weird short fiction by British writers, first published between the 1890s and the 1930s. To be published alongside the second Women's Weird anthology, Melisa Edmundson'sWomen's Weird 2, this collection - curated by James Machin, author of Palgrave Gothic's Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880-1939 - assembles stories to thrill, entertain, and chill. The nine stories are: 1.'Man-Size in Marble' by Edith Nesbit (1893): immense church effigies walk at night 2.'No-Man's Land' by John Buchan (1900): man find prehistoric tribe in Scottish Highlands 3.'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood (1907): canoeing holiday on a haunted river 4.'Caterpillars' by E. F. Benson (1912): really bad country house hallucinations 5.'The Bad Lands' by John Metcalfe (1920): more hallucinations,