It is perhaps fitting that a writer of mystery and the uncanny should present a mystery himself in his own final act, Ambrose Bierce a witness and chronicler
The ongoing Tales of the Weird collection of the British Library now numbering over thirty volumes, it is inevitable that not only will certain authors and themes recur
Another cold December and another descent into the catacombs of the British Library for editor Tanya Kirk, lead curator of the archives covering the seventeenth to twentieth centuries,
His apparent nature during his life to be reclusive and his work predominantly set around the early 1700s, a hundred and fifty years before his birth, despite having
The shortest day arriving as the year crawls towards its weary end before the long road back to the warmth of summer begins, the traditions of Christmas and
Cornwall, mysterious in culture and history, the farthest point of mainland England and gateway to foreign realms, the last glimpse of home for travellers to the new world,
Purists in their quest to compile an anthology of entomophobia, editors Daisy Butcher and Janette Leaf have looked underneath fallen leaves and turned over decaying bark to find
“It was Christmas Eve,” Jerome K Jerome begins, before making clear he understands just how superfluous that information is: “The experienced reader knows it is Christmas Eve, without
There can be no denying that Edward Frederic Benson was born into a respectable and well-connected family; by the year of his tenth birthday, his father Edward White
