Mains, Johnny - The Dead of Summer

British Library Gilded Nightmares

Edited by Johnny Mains

9780712355285

2025, British Library Publishing

Hardcover, 320blz, 21.0cm x 15cm x 3.0cm

Engelstalig

May Day Eve, Beltane, the Summer Solstice; strange tales of these liminal days and nights and their riotous rituals have been told for centuries. Today, the ancient power of these festivals may have waned, but in the archives of uncanny fiction the summer days simmer with illusory ghosts, while the sounds of sacrifice and fairy revels pierce the sweltering nights. 

Setting out on a mission to re-weird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with fourteen tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal from Europe, Japan, America and beyond to welcome a sinister summer and raise the cry: The Weird is Icumen in!