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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.
This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how
comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of
the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in
sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a
specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the
representation and narrative use of material cultures. It fulfils
its objectives through three reception studies in the first part of
the volume and three chapters by comic creators in the second part.
All six chapters aim to grapple with a set of central questions
about the power inherent in drawn images of various kinds.
Handheld Press presents a new classic short story anthology,
combining the supernatural and archaeology. Never before have so
many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing
shivers down the spine. Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of
the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar
from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of
twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts,
hauntings, and possession, all from archaeological excavation. From
a Neolithic rite to Egyptian religion to Roman remains to medieval
masonry to some uncanny ceramic tiles in a perfectly ordinary
American sun lounge, the relics in these stories are, frankly,
horrible. Stories include: 'The Ape', by E F Benson 'Roman
Remains', by Algernon Blackwood 'Ho! The Merry Masons', by John
Buchan 'Through the Veil', by Arthur Conan Doyle 'View From A
Hill', M R James 'Curse of the Stillborn', by Margery Lawrence
'Whitewash', by Rose Macaulay 'The Shining Pyramid', by Arthur
Machen 'Cracks of Time', by Dorothy Quick 'The Cure', by Eleanor
Scott
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