The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media (British Library Tales of the Weird): 30 - Softcover

 
9780712354110: The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media (British Library Tales of the Weird): 30
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712354115 ISBN 13: 9780712354110
Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A mysterious radio signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. Photography and X-ray evidence suggests there may be some truth to a sculptor’s claim that he has created a god. A spectral projection sows terror amid the flickering light of the cinema.

From the whispering wires of the telegraph and ghostly images of the daguerreotype to the disembodied voices of the phonograph and radio, the new technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave their users miraculous new powers – and new nightmares. After all, if Graham Bell’s magical device could connect us with loved ones a half a world away, what was to stop it from reaching out and touching the dead – or something worse?

Tracing this fiction of fear from the 1890s to the 1950s, this new collection brings together the best tales of haunted or uncanny media from classic – and unjustly neglected – writers of the supernatural.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Aaron Worth is professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He has edited collections of stories by Arthur Machen and Sheridan Le Fanu for the Oxford World Classics series, 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.

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Tracing a fiction of speculation and fear from the motion photography of the 1890s to 1950s television, this new collection presents seventeen tales of haunted and uncanny media from a range of writers inspired by its ghastly potential, including Marjorie Bowen, H. Russell Wakefield, Mary Treadgold and J. B. Priestley.

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Verlag
British Library Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712354115
ISBN 13 
9780712354110
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
319
Herausgeber
Worth Aaron
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