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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: E. H. Visiak, E. H. Visiak
• Con la collaborazione di: Aaron Worth (Introduzione)
• Editore: British Library
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 15.05.2025
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi; Guide e manuali
• EAN: 9780712355728
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5572-8
• Serie: British Library Tales of the Weird > 60
• Categorie: 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