British Library Tales of the Weird #33: Spectral Sounds

Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird

British Library Tales of the Weird #33: Spectral Sounds
Manon Burz-Labrande
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h190 x 130mm - 320pg
22 Sep 2022 UK
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9780712354172
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' Darkness now was around me - and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing. ' The violent peals of a disconnected bell in the night; a trudging footfall in the hush of an abandoned manor; the whisper of a deathly voice in the ear: uncanny sounds remain the most frightening heralds of danger and terror in supernatural fiction. Gathered here are fourteen tales which resonate with the unique note of fear struck by weird happenings experienced through the aural sense. Divided into four sections exploring noises from invisible presences, ghostly voices, possessed technology and the power of extreme levels of sound or silence, this collection pulses with pioneering pieces from B. M. Croker, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton and M. P. Shiel alongside haunting obscurities from the British Library collections.

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

MANON BURZ-LABRANDE is a researcher based at the University of Vienna who specialises in the content, history and literary influence of penny bloods and penny dreadfuls. Throughout her research she has pursued an interest in the role and significance of sound in Gothic and strange fiction.
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ISBN-13: 9780712354172
Published: 22 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 190mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 320

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