The Night Wire

and Other Tales of Weird Media

The Night Wire
Aaron Worth
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Paperback
h190 x 130mm - 288pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
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9780712354110
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A mysterious radio signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. Photography and X-ray evidence suggests there may be some truth to a sculptor' s claim that he has created a god. A spectral projection sows terror amid the flickering light of the cinema. From the whispering wires of the telegraph and ghostly images of the daguerreotype to the disembodied voices of the phonograph and radio, the new technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave their users miraculous new powers - and new nightmares. After all, if Graham Bell' s magical device could connect us with loved ones a half a world away, what was to stop it from reaching out and touching the dead - or something worse? Tracing this fiction of fear from the 1890s to the 1950s, this new collection brings together the best tales of haunted or uncanny media from classic - and unjustly neglected - writers of the supernatural.

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 - (not currently available)
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
Face in the Glass, The: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon - (not currently available)
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 - (not currently available)
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 - (not currently available)
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain

Aaron Worth is professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He has edited collections of stories by Arthur Machen and Sheridan Le Fanu for the Oxford World Classics series, and was the author of Imperial Media, a study of how advances in media and technology shaped the British Literary Imagination in the late nineteenth century.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780712354110
Published: 14 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 190mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 288

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