Medusa - A Novel of Mystery, Ecstasy and Strange Horror

"...a little on one side of me, I spied something that moved along upon the verge with a sliding writhing motion, seeming like the extremity of a sort of trunk; like the body of a huge serpent... Drawn by horror's fearful traction, I moved to the verge of the parapet and looked down..."Somewhere around the early eighteenth century, young Will Harvell joins a sea voyage in search of a mariner's missing son which gradually finds itself drawn towards an ancient and indescribable terror of the ocean in E. H. Visiak's classic novel, which returns to print featuring a new introduction by horror expert Aaron Worth.Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure with Atlantean mythology and a uniquely unsettling brand of metaphysical, sublime horror-all delivered in Visiak's high literary style- Medusa remains a distinctive, influential and still exciting work in the history of early twentieth-century weird writing.

Product details

• Authors: E. H. Visiak, E. H. Visiak
• Assisted by: Aaron Worth (Introduction)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9780712355728
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5572-8
• Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Gothic, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic science fiction, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient religions & mythologies, Classic horror and ghost stories, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction