'What a terrible calamity, what a stupefying circumstance, if mosquitoes
were the size of camels, and a herd of wild slugs the size of elephants
invaded our gardens and had to be shot with rifles...'A blue scarab
which makes the sound of a terrifying death-tick. A moth with the
markings of a dead man's face. An empire of intelligent, aggressive and
colossal ants.
The insect kingdom has finally come to seek
retribution for humankind's negligence. Never has a creature been so
topical - with headlines warning of the mosquito bearing viruses, fire
ants destroying power sources, invasive yellow ladybirds or an
ecological insect apocalypse that threatens the very balance of our
natural world. With growing concerns about global warming, pesticides,
and genetically modified crops, Eco-Gothic is moving to the fore in
modern scholarship, and this collection allows readers to be a fly on
the wall to some of the creepiest and crawliest accounts of insectoid
horror from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson and Jane G. Austin. Fear indeed walks on many legs.
Crawling Horror : Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird - Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf
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