The Dead of Summer
Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer
Published on 24. April 2025
Book
Hardback
978-0-7123-5528-5 (ISBN)
Description
May Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve or the Summer Solstice. Tales of these fated days and nights, and their riotous rituals and feasts, have rung down the centuries, and yet in today's world those that observe their ancient ways are few.
Setting out on a mission to re-weird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with a collection of tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal to welcome the summer and raise the cry: Wyrd is Icumen in!
Setting out on a mission to re-weird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with a collection of tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal to welcome the summer and raise the cry: Wyrd is Icumen in!
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7123-5528-5 (9780712355285)
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Johnny Mains is an author and award-winning editor renowned for recovering lost stories from the archives. Among the many volumes he has edited are two collections of lost women's ghost stories for Black Shuck Books (A Suggestion of Ghosts and An Obscurity of Ghosts), the collection Bound in Blood for Titan, and two collections of strange fiction for the British Library: Celtic Weird and Scotland the Strange.