Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights: 27 (British Library Tales of the Weird) - Softcover

British Library

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712354107 ISBN 13: 9780712354103

Publisher: British Library Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk are curators in the Printed Heritage Collections team at the British Library. Lucy works primarily with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books and was the curator of the children’s literature exhibition, Marvellous and Mischievous. 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 (2018) and Chill Tidings (2020).

From the Back Cover

Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of terrifying Christmas tales, and prepare to plunge into the unforgiving snow outside. In this new anthology we go beyond the cosiness of the hearth and embark on journeys to the pine forests of Canada and the frozen peaks of the Alps and the Himalayas to experience a fresh selection of ghostly tales, perfect for the yuletide season.

Delve within for a unique selection ranging from the macabre folklore of Christmas in Finland to tales of mountain-climbers beset by malignant forces and ice skaters skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm, and prepare for the longest nights of all.

Edition details

• Publisher: British Library Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712354107
• ISBN 13: 9780712354103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288