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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712355294 ISBN 13: 9780712355292

Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2025

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• 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
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: BRITISH LIBRARY PUBLISHING; https://www.bl.uk/; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italien