One of the tasks facing any anthologist of late Victorian and Edwardian supernatural fiction is that many, many such stories were churned out for the periodicals, and many of them were mundane, featherweight, and sometimes downright dreadful. Here he turns his attention to lesser known supernatural short stories from the 1890s to the 1920s. This also seemed appropriate to cover because we had some contact with Mike last year, when we received his blessing to re-publish his landmark article from the seventies (revised in the nineties) ‘Fighters of Fear’ in the anthology Occult Detective Quarterly Presents (Ulthar Press). Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories (British Library Tales of the Weird Book 3), is edited by that veteran anthologist Mike Ashley. Huzzah! There’s an outline schedule of planned releases at the end of this post, but today we visit their anhtology Glimpses of the Unknown, and we add some of our usual supernatural and detective trivia… Some of these volumes offer an introduction to the writing of various Gothic and horror writers others are built around a theme, or present rare and largely forgotten stories, a number of which of which have never been anthologised before. We were excited to discover, last year, that the British Library had begun to release a whole new series of supernatural publications.
Join us, dear listener, in another journey into the past of weird and horror fiction. A ghost with a club-foot, a lost E F Benson tale, a pioneering female journalist, the writing Barr brothers, the not-quite-first Sherlock Holmes parody, plus other curiosities.
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