Halloweird

Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain

Johnny Mains

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British Library Publishing
01 March 2025

Poetry anthologies; Anthologies (non-poetry); Classic horror & ghost stories

In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days of the druidic Samhain, storytellers have observed the tradition of spinning tall, twisted tales of dark magic, spectral stalkings and unearthly creatures to mark this festival's uniquely frightening aura.

Collecting up a haunting haul of tales and a handful of weird seasonal poetry from across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new volume celebrates the riotous weird of the Halloween season through the works of legendary ghost story writers such as Edith Wharton alongside rare literary treats, rediscovered by Johnny Mains and returning to print for the first time since their original publication.

Edited by: Johnny Mains
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 149mm,
ISBN: 9780712355025
ISBN 10: 0712355022
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Johnny Mains is an author and award-winning editor renowned for recovering lost stories from the archives. Among the many volumes he has edited are two collections of lost women's ghost stories for Black Shuck Books (A Suggestion of Ghosts and An Obscurity of Ghosts), the collection Bound in Blood for Titan, and two collections of strange fiction for the British Library: Celtic Weird and Scotland the Strange.