Damnable Tales - A Folk Horror Anthology (Wells Richard)(Paperback / softback)

These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells.
This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson.
They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness of unholy rights, witches' curses, sinister village traditions and ancient
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