Circles of Stone - Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. ‘What a silly little girl,’ the nurse had said. ‘It’s only the... stone.’ Standing stones, stone circles, tumps, barrows and ancient clearings still remain across the British Isles, and though their specific significance may be obscured by the passing of time, their strange allure and mysterious energy persist in our collective consciousness. Assembled here in tribute to these relics of a lost age are accounts of terrifying spirits haunting Stonehenge itself, stories of awful fates for those who impose modernity on the sacred sites and grim tales in which unwitting trespassers into the eternal rites of pagan worship find themselves part of an enduring legacy of blood. To represent the breadth of the sub-genre, authors include Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood and Rosalie Muspratt alongside lesser-known writers from the periodicals and journals of the British Library collections.

General

Imprint:	British Library Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Library Tales of the Weird, 44
Release date:	December 2023
Editors:	Katy Soar
Dimensions:	190 x 130mm (L x W)
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-7123-5459-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-7123-5459-X
Barcode:	9780712354592

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