Shadows Over Cymru
Published on 26. May 2026
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7123-6950-3 (ISBN)
Description
From the peaks of Eryri to dramatic coastlines, misty valleys and haunted mines, Wales is a land whose myth and folklore has long been reflected in a thriving storytelling tradition, with the dragons and sorcerers of the Mabinogion and Arthurian legend laying a path for later tales of the Tylwyth Teg, and the pitiless fair folk of Arthur Machen's fictional world.
To show the breadth of the strange tales inspired by the Celtic history and local legends of Cymru, horror expert Aaron Worth presents an exciting new selection of Anglophone Welsh fiction, including folkloric retellings, classics of the early twentieth-century weird and chilling pieces by writers from beyond the country's borders. Featuring stories by Dylan Thomas, Christianna Brand, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Margiad Evans and many more, this collection welcomes you to the darker side of Cymru.
To show the breadth of the strange tales inspired by the Celtic history and local legends of Cymru, horror expert Aaron Worth presents an exciting new selection of Anglophone Welsh fiction, including folkloric retellings, classics of the early twentieth-century weird and chilling pieces by writers from beyond the country's borders. Featuring stories by Dylan Thomas, Christianna Brand, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Margiad Evans and many more, this collection welcomes you to the darker side of Cymru.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
688 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7123-6950-3 (9780712369503)
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Persons
Aaron Worth is professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He introduced and edited the Tales of the Weird anthologies Randalls Round, The Night Wire, Out of the Past and Spores of Doom 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.