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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. “The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror” consists of 19 stories, some original to this anthology and others reprints, of horror tales rooted in ancient folktales, primarily those of the United Kingdom but also some from the United States and one from India. As with any anthology, some stories are more appealing than others, although I will note that unusually for me, I had to read these in groups of three or fewer because I was scaring myself trying to read them all back-to-back! With writers ranging from Arthur Machen (“The White People,” 1899) to H.P. Lovecraft (“The Hound,” 1924; the first mention of the Necronomican is found here) and forward to Kim Newman (“The Gypsies In the Wood”) and Ramsey Campbell (“The Fourth Call”) and back again to Algernon Blackwood (“Ancient Lights,” 1912), then into the present with Alison Littlewood (“Jenny Greenteeth”) and David A. Sutton (“St. Ambrew’s Well”), this collection has something for every horror fan! Recommended - just be sure all the lights are on if you’re reading this at night! ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, Michael Marshall Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, and more! The darkness that endures beneath the earth . . . the disquiet that lingers in the woodland surrounding a forgotten path . . . those ancient traditions and practices that still cling to standing stone circles, earthworks, and abandoned buildings; elaborate rituals that invoke elder gods or nature deities; the restless spirits and legendary creatures that remain connected to a place or object, or exist in deep wells and lonely pools of water, waiting to ensnare the unwary traveler . . . These concepts have been the archetypes of horror fiction for decades, but in recent years they have been given a name: Folk Horror. This type of storytelling has existed for more than a century. Authors Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and M. R. James all published fiction that had its roots in the notion of the supernatural being linked to objects or places "left behind." All four writers are represented in this volume with powerful, and hopefully unfamiliar, examples of their work, along with newer exponents of the craft such as Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, and many others. Illustrated with the atmospheric photography of Michael Marshall Smith, the stories in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror tap into an aspect of folkloric tradition that has long been dormant, but never quite forgotten, while the depiction of these forces as being in some way "natural" in no way detracts from the sense of nameless dread and escalating horror that they inspire . . . Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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