Tag: Tales of the Weird

The 11 best new horror books to read this April

Post author By Peter Meinertzhagen
Post date 04/04/2019
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In this month’s fantastic selection we see obsession driven to madness, a reimagining of the Kilkenny witch trial, the weird stories of William Hope Hodgson, folk horror in the remote Scottish highlands, John Langan’s new short story collection, the devil’s corrupting influence, and much more.

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Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End book review

Post author By Peter Meinertzhagen
Post date 06/01/2019
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“Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End” is another great collection from the British Library that provides the reader with an intimate experience with the otherwise unfathomable: our own mortality.

Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End is the second book I’ve reviewed in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series (read my review of Spirits of the Season), which aims to revive long-lost material from the library’s vaults in the genres of horror, the gothic, and weird fiction. This collection focuses on death, stories which bring us face to face with our own mortality.

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Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings book review

Post author By Peter Meinertzhagen
Post date 30/12/2018
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Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings review

Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings is a marvellous collection of Christmas ghost stories by 19th century and early 20th century writers, some of whom you will expect to see in a collection such as this (M.R. James, for example) but some you might be nescient of. Whilst I am publishing this review after Christmas, these are stories I would urge you to read whatever the time of year (but are especially haunting in these dark, winter months).

Tags H. P. Lovecraft, Tales of the Weird