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Cargando... Damnable tales : a folk horror anthology (edición 2021)por Richard Wells (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A handsomely designed and solid tome, this presents a couple of dozen short stories in chronological order by first publication. The subtitle says 'A Folk Horror Analogy', and that description is kind of loose, since some of the tales are more folky than others, and a few are dubiously horrific at all. The authors represented range from the generically famous (RL Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, E Nesbit [!], Saki, Walter de la Mare) through the obligatory for this subject matter (MR James, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson) to names unfamiliar (at least, to me). Most are very English in style and setting (and for this reason, the very American Jackson feels a bit of an outlier, though her inclusion is an obvious 'big name' draw). Throughout, the general themes are of 'modern/town/Christian' folk deposited in a rural setting, stumbling out of the comfortable, predictable, but perhaps somewhat unexciting worlds of the familiar into other, older, weirder goings-on that alternately attract, bamboozle, or terrify them. Sometimes (more often in the older stories) these lead to a denouement in which the protagonist either witnesses or is drawn into a specific bizarre happening, but in others the point seems to be more to leave the reader with a general sense of foreboding or unease without any specific event at the conclusion. Personally, I found those less satisfying (in a 'Yes, but what of it?' kind of way), but your mileage may vary. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. These twenty-three stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches' curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape combine to remind us that the shiny, modern, urban world might not have all the answers"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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-Laura Silver Bell by Sheridan Le Fanu
-Man-Size in Marble by Edith Nesbit
-Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson
-The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy
-Pallinghurst Barrow by Grant Allen
-Devil of the Marsh by H. B. Marriott-Watson
-The Sin-Eater by Fiona Macleod
-The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen
-The Black Reaper by Bernard Capes
-The Ash-Tree by M. R. James
-Out of the Sea by A. C. Benson
-Gavon's Eve by E. F. Benson
-A Witch-Burning by Mrs Baillie Reynolds
-The Music on the Hill by Saki
-The Tarn of Sacrifice by Algernon Blackwood
-How Pan Came to Little Ingleton by Margery Lawrence
-All Hallows by Walter de la Mare
-Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott
-The First Sheaf by H. R. Wakefield
-CWM Garon by L. T. C. Rolt
-The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
-The Lady on the Grey by John Collier
-Bind Your Hair by Robert Aickman