
Sunless Solstice
Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights
British Library Publishing
Published on 21. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7123-5410-3 (ISBN)
Description
'Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such things should actually become real.'
Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and Robert Aickman.
Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits, vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm - and prepare for the longest nights of all.
Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and Robert Aickman.
Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits, vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm - and prepare for the longest nights of all.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 187 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7123-5410-3 (9780712354103)
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Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk are curators in the Printed Heritage Collections team at the British Library. Lucy works primarily with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books and was the curator of the children's literature exhibition, Marvellous and Mischievous. Tanya is Lead Curator for the period 1601-1900. She was a co-curator of the exhibition Terror & Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, and has edited the Tales of the Weird collections Spirits of the Season (2018) and Chill Tidings (2020).