Heavy Weather - Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes

From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to 20th century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters, heat waves, severe winters, hurricanes, and hailstones offers the perfect read on a rainy day--or night. Featuring a selection of some of the finest writers in the English language--Algernon Blackwood, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and more--this collection of weird tales will delight and disturb.

About the author

Kevan Manwaring is Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, and the author of The Windsmith Elegy fantasy series. He is also an active poet and poetry historian whose books include The Bardic Handbook and Ballad Tales: An Anthology of British Ballads Retold.

Summary

Since stories have been swapped and written down, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. Charting the course from ancient flood myths to twentieth-century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters and severe weathers offers the perfect read on a rainy day - or night.

Product details

• Authors: Kevan Manwaring
• Assisted by: Kevan Manwaring (Editor), Manwaring Kevan (Editor)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780712353588
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5358-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 190 mm x 23 mm
• Series: British Library Tales of the Weird; Tales of the Weird
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Fantasy / Epic, 20th Century, FICTION / Horror, Horror & ghost stories, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Weather and climate: general interest, Horror and supernatural fiction, FICTION / Nature & the Environment