This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories
from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le
Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field
including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less
bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells.
They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and
dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient
places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror - a now
widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the
late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satan's Claw
(1971), and The Wicker Man (1973). But as this collection shows,
writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore
long before. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety
and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness.
Unholy rites, witches' curses, sinister village traditions and ancient
horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the
shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers...
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology - Richard Wells
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