British Library Tales of the Weird #21: Crawling Horror

Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird

British Library Tales of the Weird #21: Crawling Horror
Daisy Butcher, Janette Leaf
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17 Jun 2021 UK
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9780712353496
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' Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the counter. It bit him. . . A brush with a killer hornet turns a reverend' s life on its head. A moth wreaks a strange vengeance on a bewildered entomologist. Bees deliver a supernatural dilemma to a mother-to-be. This new anthology offers a diverse collection of tales plucked from the long history of insect literature, with deadly encounters and classic hauntings alongside depictions of the six-legged as harbingers of news from the spirit world. With expert notes on how each tale contributed to the development of insect portrayals in horror literature, Janette Leaf and Daisy Butcher are your field guides for some of the creepiest and crawliest accounts of insectoid horror from the minds of Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson, Clare Winger Harris and Jane G. Austin.

Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land's End
Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
Face in the Glass, The: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Ghost Slayers, The: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights
Heavy Weather
Horned God, The: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan
I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist
Into the Darkening Fog: Eerie Tales of the London Weird
Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth
Night Wire, The: and Other Tales of Weird Media
Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
Platform Edge, The: Uncanny Tales of the Railways
Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales from the Ends of the Earth
Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science
Randalls Round: Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott
Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas
Shadows on the Wall: Dark Tales by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights
Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson, The
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain

Daisy Butcher is a Doctoral Student working on the Open Graves, Open Minds Project at the University of Hertfordshire. Her study focuses on depictions of the feminine in gothic and weird fiction, including particular discussion of female mummies, vampires, and of course, the killer plant. Janette Leaf is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, and has presented on Richard Marsh' s late Victorian bestseller, The Beetle, and nineteenth-century Egyptology in London and the provinces. She is also a reviewer for Cambridge University Press and the British Society for Literature and Science.
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ISBN-13: 9780712353496
Published: 17 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 190mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 288

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