The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves (British Library Tales of the Weird) - Softcover

 
9780712355292: The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712355294 ISBN 13: 9780712355292
Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

As he turned over its stiff and yellow pages, he noticed with pleasure the smell of corruption that had first repelled him in these decaying volumes, a smell, he now thought, of ancient and secret knowledge...

Researchers prying into an obscure manuscript come face to face with its ghoulish guardian. A bookseller digging through an attic disturbs something far more dangerous than dust. An uncanny tome tempts its reader onto a path of untold evil. Welcome to The Haunted Library, a collection of fourteen tales steeped in the dark psychic traces found in the stacks and shelves of libraries, bookshops, and other troves of hidden knowledge.

Including stories from rare pulp magazines, classics from the minds of M. R. James, L. P. Hartley and Margaret Irwin, and modern chillers from Penelope Lively and C. J. Faraday, this volume invites you into a hushed realm of cursed authors, ghostly bibliophiles, and readers haunted by the weird powers of the written word.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tanya Kirk is a librarian at St John's College, Cambridge and was a curator of the Western Heritage collection at the British Library. She has edited many seasonal collections in the British Library's Tales of the Weird series including Haunters at the Hearth, Sunless Solstice, Chill Tidings and Spirits of the Season.

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A popular anthology published in 2016 before the launch of the British Library Tales of the Weird rejoins the series with new material included. Featuring stone-cold classics from M. R. James and Margaret Irwin alongside rare items from the labyrinthine basements of the British Library collections.

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Verlag
British Library Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712355294
ISBN 13 
9780712355292
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
Kirk Tanya
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