Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain
Authors and Contributors      Edited by John Miller
SeriesBritish Library Tales of the Weird
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 130
Category/GenreClassic horror and ghost stories
Myth and legend told as fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780712353427
ClassificationsDewey:823.0873808
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher British Library Publishing
Imprint British Library Publishing
Publication Date 27 August 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach into underworlds of earth, myth and magic. Forests are full of ghosts. In this new collection, immerse yourself in the whispering voices between the branches in Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor, witness an inexplicable death in Yorkshire's Strid Wood and prepare yourself for an encounter with malignant pagan powers in the dark of the New Forest. This edition also includes notes on the real locations and folklore which inspired these deliciously sinister stories.

Author Biography

John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield. His research ranges across multiple topics in late Victorian and Edwardian literature, including literary depictions of animals, exoticism and tattoos, as explored in Tales of the Tattooed, also published in the Tales of the Weird series.