Victorian Tales of the Weird (eBook)

A curated anthology of Victorian and Edwardian weird tales, supernatural horrors and uncanny fiction

Nick Rennison (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
288 Seiten
No Exit Press (Verlag)
978-1-83501-067-9 (ISBN)

Infos

From a dancing automaton running amok at a ball, to a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of a Yorkshire cave, this anthology explores the nature of the 'old weird', and unordinary stories which go outside the boundaries of everyday life.
The anthology includes not only stories by well-known writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, but also by long-forgotten authors such as D. F. Hannigan and Reginald Bacchus. Focusing on the idea and history of what can be classified as 'old weird', compared to the 'new weird', Rennison applies experience and knowledge of Victorian literary history to bring these supernatural tales to the surface.

Autor

NICK RENNISON is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He is the editor of six anthologies of short stories for No Exit Press: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The Rivals of Dracula, Supernatural Sherlocks, More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock's Sisters and American Sherlocks, plus A Short History of Polar Exploration, Peter Mark Roget: A Biography, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Robin Hood: Myth, History & Culture and Bohemian London, published by Oldcastle Books. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His crime novels, Carver's Quest and Carver's Truth, both set in nineteenth-century London, are published by Corvus. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 19th-century horror tales • Algernon Blackwood • Arthur Conan Doyle • Bram Stoker • classic ghost stories • classic weird fiction anthology • dancing automaton story • D. F. Hannigan • forgotten Victorian authors • Gothic Victorian literature • hg wells • H. G. Wells • Horror • H. P. Lovecraft • HP Lovecraft • Jerome K. Jerome • scary • Sheridan Le Fanu • Sherlock • Short Stories • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • spooky stories • Stephen King • Supernatural • victorian era mysteries • victorian ghost stories • Victorian supernatural stories • Victorian Tales
• ISBN-10: 1-83501-067-9 / 1835010679
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83501-067-9 / 9781835010679