Cornish Horrors - Tales From the Land's End

Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the region in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism.

About the author

Joan Passey is a teacher and researcher at the University of Bristol specializing in transhistorical Gothic fiction. Her first book, Cornish Gothic, is upcoming with University of Wales Press and she has previously published on Ann Radcliffe, Wilkie Collins, and Shirley Jackson.

Summary

Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the region in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Passey
• Assisted by: Joan Passey (Editor)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780712353991
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5399-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 190 mm x 30 mm
• Series: British Library Tales of the Weird; BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE W
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Unexplained Phenomena, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, Classic horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction, Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary