Holy Ghosts

Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny

AvFiona Snailham

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Del 38 i serien British Library Tales of the Weird

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Beskrivning

"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard."A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a cathedral's hallowed inner sanctum; sheltering in an Alpine chapel, a young libertine confronts his eerie monastic doppelganger; locked in a Spanish cathedral, a honeymooning couple bears witness to a fatal procession. Churches and other sacred sites have inspired writers of the weird and uncanny for centuries as spaces in which death and the afterlife are within touching distance - where ghosts, demons and possessed effigies remain to haunt the living. Through eleven stories published between 1851 and 1935, this new anthology revives a throng of undying spirits from a host of unsung and classic authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, John Wyndham, and Edith Wharton.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-08
Mått:130 x 190 x 25 mm
Vikt:0 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:British Library Tales of the Weird
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:British Library Publishing
ISBN:9780712354134

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FIONA SNAILHAM is a Lecturer in Gothic Literature at the University of Greenwich. Her research interests include Victorian popular fiction, nineteenth-century women writers and the ghost story. Her current project explores the intersection between Christian theology and Victorian mediumship and spiritualism.