[PDF] Damnable Tales eBook

Author : Richard Wells
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1800180616

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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 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...

Author : David Hurley
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780692568316

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If you're looking for ways to bake or boil lobster, this book offers no recipes, and no apologies for not including any. However, if you're looking for some deliciously funny myths and legends about everyone's favorite crustacean, this is the book to get. Inside you'll discover the Abominable Snow Lobster, prehistoric fur-covered lobsters, lobster satellites, and house-broken pet lobsters, among many others.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A collection of fifteen fantastic tales, ranging far in time and space, from the psychological tension of an extraterrestrial encounter to a frontier tall tale of a trapper hunting a mammoth.

Author : Richard Wells
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2024-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1789651743

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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 Richard’s striking lino-print illustrations. This anthology contains work from both the established masters of folk horror, and some more surprising contributors: from Shirley Jackson and M. R. James to E. F. Benson and William Croft Dickinson. Tales Accursed will raise the hairs on your neck and keep you alert to the slightest rustle in the trees: through the chill splendour of moonlit nights come apparitions through the orchard; sea-witches perch on the sharp fangs of rocks as they weave their spells; fir-woods lie unnaturally still with no birdsong, no breeze, nor any undergrowth; and hooded creatures crouch on grey secluded beaches. This book combines ancient horrors from the wilderness with sinister shadows of the landscape to remind us of the settings of our ancestors. Tales Accursed is a gloriously creepy collection of chilling folk horror tales that is both thrilling and unnerving.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 019283360X

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A reissue of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"

Author : Richard Wells
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2024-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789651737

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A second collection of sixteen beautifully illustrated stories that explore the dark side of folklore: unholy rites, witches' curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape. 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 Richard's striking lino-print illustrations. Richard's previous anthology, Damnable Tales, has been acknowledged as a classic both in the UK and the US. Tales Accursed explores similar territory: great stories by acknowledged masters of the genre like M. R. James, Shirley Jackson and Algernon Blackwood, alongside eerie tales by those less associated with the horror genre, like John Buchan, E. F. Benson and William Croft Dickinson. What is it about these stories of the uncanny, many of them written over a century ago, that make them so appealing to contemporary readers? In his Introduction to Damnable Tales, the novelist Benjamin Myers offers a clue: 'They take place in worlds we recognise as once-removed from our realities. These are the settings of our ancestors, and therefore are still carried somewhere deep within us now: remote villages and darkened lanes, lonely woodlands, obscure country houses and crumbling cemeteries. Places where the crepuscular light is eternally fading and in which the inanimate or the dormant is slowly stirring.'

Author : Gerald J. Davis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2016-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365188019

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The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.

Author : Alan G. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501384007

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Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of England's rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardy's world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat.