Medusa
A Novel of Mystery, Ecstasy and Strange Horror
2025
British Library Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7123-5572-8 (ISBN)
British Library Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7123-5572-8 (ISBN)
A new edition of an important novel which is now extremely scarce, its only recent edition having been a short-run collector's item. This novel is regularly listed as one of the twentieth-century's best horror novels in reviews throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s.
"...a little on one side of me, I spied something that moved along upon the verge with a sliding writhing motion, seeming like the extremity of a sort of trunk; like the body of a huge serpent... Drawn by horror's fearful traction, I moved to the verge of the parapet and looked down..."
Somewhere around the early eighteenth century, young Will Harvell joins a sea voyage in search of a mariner's missing son which gradually finds itself drawn towards an ancient and indescribable terror of the ocean in E. H. Visiak's classic novel, which returns to print featuring a new introduction by horror expert Aaron Worth.
Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure with Atlantean mythology and a uniquely unsettling brand of metaphysical, sublime horror-all delivered in Visiak's high literary style- Medusa remains a distinctive, influential and still exciting work in the history of early twentieth-century weird writing.
"...a little on one side of me, I spied something that moved along upon the verge with a sliding writhing motion, seeming like the extremity of a sort of trunk; like the body of a huge serpent... Drawn by horror's fearful traction, I moved to the verge of the parapet and looked down..."
Somewhere around the early eighteenth century, young Will Harvell joins a sea voyage in search of a mariner's missing son which gradually finds itself drawn towards an ancient and indescribable terror of the ocean in E. H. Visiak's classic novel, which returns to print featuring a new introduction by horror expert Aaron Worth.
Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure with Atlantean mythology and a uniquely unsettling brand of metaphysical, sublime horror-all delivered in Visiak's high literary style- Medusa remains a distinctive, influential and still exciting work in the history of early twentieth-century weird writing.
E. H. Visiak (18781972) was the nom de plume of the British writer and critic Edward Harold Physick, an expert on Milton and celebrated Edwardian poet best known for Buccaneer Ballads (1910) and a handful of strange short stories. His novel Medusa (1929) is heralded as an important contribution to weird fiction.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | British Library Tales of the Weird ; 60 |
| Einführung | Aaron Worth |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
| Literatur ► Historische Romane | |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7123-5572-3 / 0712355723 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7123-5572-8 / 9780712355728 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
ohne den ganzen langweiligen Kram
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 36,40
von den Anfängen bis zum Untergang
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
Alfred Kröner Verlag
CHF 48,95
von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
Buch | Softcover (2025)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 16,80
