Sunless Solstice

Lucy Evans

ISBN 10: 0712354107 / ISBN 13: 9780712354103

Published by British Library Publishing, GB, 2021

'Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such things should actually become real.'Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and Robert Aickman.Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits, vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm - and prepare for the longest nights of all. Seller Inventory # LU-9780712354103

Synopsis:

Another festive edition to the Tales of the Weird series, following on from Spirits of the Season and Chill Tidings.

A unique selection ranging from the spooky haunted houses of Victorian Christmastime to experimental twentieth-century horrors. It offers a truly international scope of stories, from the pine forests of Canada to the peaks of the Alps.

Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such things should actually become real.

Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and Robert Aickman.

Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits, vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm – and prepare for the longest nights of all.

About the Author: Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk are curators in the Printed Heritage Collections team at the British Library. Tanya is Lead Curator for the period 1601–1900. She was a co-curator of the exhibition Terror & Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, and has edited the Tales of the Weird collections Spirits of the Season and Chill Tidings. Lucy works primarily with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books and was the curator of the children’s literature exhibition, Marvellous and Mischievous.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sunless Solstice
Publisher: British Library Publishing, GB
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New