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Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles

Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham, Joan Passey

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British Library
21 September 2022

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

'The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam, and the waves, white-crested, came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose.'

From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling shingles and silted estuaries, the coasts of the British Isles have stoked the imaginations of storytellers for millennia, lending a rich literary significance to these spaces between land and sea. For those who choose to explore these shores, generations of ghosts, sea-spirits, fairies and tentacled monsters come and go with the tide.

This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man, including haunting pieces by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bram Stoker and Charlotte Riddell.

Edited by: Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham, Joan Passey
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 31
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712354219
ISBN 10: 0712354212
Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 21 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham and Joan Passey are the founders of the Haunted Shores Research Network, an organisation exploring horror and Gothic literature based around or inspired by coasts, and aiming to pinpoint the particular appeal and characteristics of the littoral weird. Established in 2020, the research exhibited at the Network's first symposium in 2021 touched on diverse topics from Victorian smuggling narratives to the enduring appeal of Kaiju cinema.