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- ISBN 9780712369459
- Dimensions: 130 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2026
- Publisher: British Library Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The stars gave light enough for me to discern the figure as that of a man, but I could scarcely discover more. “Dark night, this,” I said. “Darker below,” he muttered, as though to himself; “darker, darker, darker.”
Yorkshire: a land entwined with a distinctive tradition of uncanny literature and folklore, home to twilit towns thronging with restless ghosts, woods alive with the whispers of fairies and vast moorlands stalked by boggarts and barghests after dark.
Exploring Yorkshire’s position as a heartland of British supernatural fiction, the stories and poems gathered here trace its weird literary heritage from medieval tales of shapeshifting spirits to the Gothic worlds of the Brontë sisters, and from wartime hauntings to modern folk horror. Including local legends from rare sources and unsettling stories from Arthur Machen, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Andrew Michael Hurley and many more, this collection offers glimpses of a stranger England hidden among the shadows of the dales.
Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist, writer, artist and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University whose work explores fairy tales, horror, eerie landscapes and collaborative storytelling. Her collections for the Tales of the Weird include Into the London Fog and Deadly Dolls, and she is also the editor of the Gilded Nightmares anthology Fearsome Fairies. She grew up in Bradford, and has a keen interest in Yorkshire's ghostly heritage.
