Damnable Tales

Damnable Tales
Author :
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Total Pages : 422
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781800180611
ISBN-13 : 1800180616
Rating : 4/5 (616 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Damnable Tales by : Richard Wells

Download or read book Damnable Tales written by Richard Wells and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror – a now widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973). But as this collection shows, writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore long before. These twenty-two 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 all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers...


Damnable Tales Related Books

Damnable Tales
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Richard Wells
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-02 - Publisher: Unbound Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur
Tales Accursed
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Richard Wells
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-03 - Publisher: Unbound Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tales Accursed is the second collection of classic supernatural stories selected by the artist Richard Wells. Each of the sixteen tales is accompanied by one of
The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Familiar studies of men and books. Miscellaneous papers
Language: en
Pages: 430
Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1895 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Canterbury Tales
Language: en
Pages: 724
Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-11 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, Th
Shakespeare's Alternative Tales
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Leah Scragg
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work.