British Weird

For fans of the best-sellingWomens Weirdanthology comesBritish Weird, a new installment of stories by British writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic.Curated byJames Machin, the author of Palgrave Gothic'sWeird Fiction in Britain, 1880 1939,who details the background of these stories in the Weird tradition, identifying their use of peculiarly British preoccupations in supernatural short fiction. Immense church effigies walk at night, man find a prehistoric tribe in the Scottish Highlands, canoeing on a haunted riverthese are some examples of Weird stories that areuniquely British in style and content.Authors include:E.F. Benson(Caterpillars)Algernon Blackwood(The Willows)John Buchan(No-Mans Land)Mary ButtsMappa Mundi)L.A. Lewis(Lost Keep)Arthur Machen(N)John Metcalfe(The Bad Lands)Edith Nesbit(Man-Size in a Marble)Eleanor Scott(Randalls Round)This collection is certain to thrill, entertain, and chill any fan of classic Weird fiction.