Out of the Past - Tales of Haunting History

Summoning eleven stories chosen for their uncanny portrayals of weird history, this collection presents a dark timeline of grim visions harking from plague-racked England to revolutionary France and culminating in the last gasps of the nineteenth century.

About the author

Aaron Worth is professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He introduced and edited the Tales of the Weird anthologies Randalls Round and The Night Wire, 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.

Summary

Summoning eleven stories chosen for their uncanny portrayals of weird history, this collection presents a dark timeline of grim visions harking from plague-racked England to revolutionary France and culminating in the last gasps of the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Worth
• Assisted by: Aaron Worth (Editor)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2024
• EAN: 9780712355605
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5560-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary