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To be published on 20 September 2022
Strange Relics is an anthology of classic short stories in which the supernatural and archaeology are combined, originally published from 1895 to 1954. Never before have so many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing shivers down the spine.
Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts, hauntings, and possession, all from archaeological excavation. From a Neolithic rite to Egyptian religion to Roman remains to medieval masonry to some uncanny ceramic tiles in a perfectly ordinary American sun lounge, the relics in these stories are, frankly, horrible.
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Description
The stories
The stories in Strange Relics are:
- ‘The Ape’, by E F Benson (at his command)
- ‘Roman Remains’, by Algernon Blackwood (bestial rites in Wales)
- ‘Ho! The Merry Masons’, by John Buchan (a haunted medieval house)
- ‘Through the Veil’, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Roman ghosts)
- ‘View From A Hill’, M R James (beastly binoculars)
- ‘Curse of the Stillborn’, by Margery Lawrence (Egyptian death rites)
- ‘Whitewash’, by Rose Macaulay (the death caves of the Emperor)
- ‘The Shining Pyramid’, by Arthur Machen (prehistoric survival)
- ‘Cracks of Time’, by Dorothy Quick (the tiles are possessed)
- ‘The Cure’, by Eleanor Scott (Viking rituals)
- ‘The Next Heir’ by H D Everett (inherit at peril)
- ‘The Golden Ring’ by Alan J B Wace (Mycenaean treasure)
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Women’s Weird: the original anthology edited by Melissa Edmundson. Contains thirteen excellent supernatural stories encompassing the boundaries of Weird by outstanding women authors. Includes stories by Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, Margery Lawrence and E Nesbit.
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The Villa and The Vortex, by Elinor Mordaunt: we bring this exceptionally good writer of Weird fiction back into print with this new anthology of her best supernatural writing.
The Outcast and The Rite, by the Australian writer Helen De Guerry Simpson, this collects the best of her unsettling supernatural writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric.
From the Abyss, by D K Broster, a spectacularly good collection of the Weird short fiction that this very popular historical novelist wrote alongside her fiction of the eighteenth century (to be published in August 2022).
