
Spectral Sounds
Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird
Manon Burz-Labrande(Editor)
British Library Publishing
Published on 22. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7123-5417-2 (ISBN)
Description
'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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7123-5417-2 (9780712354172)
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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.