
When she was able to hear something besides her own pulse she listened to the phrase the two in white whispered again and again, distinguishing, at last, the words.
“Come out… come out into the dark… come with us…”
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 pagan 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 short stories and a handful of strange seasonal poetry spanning from 1780 to the 1970s, 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.
Publication date: 10/10/2024
Author: Edited by Johnny Mains
Brand: British Library Publishing
Number of pages: 320
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: 210 x 149 mm
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