The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam,and the waves,white-crested,came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose.'From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling shingles and silted estuaries,the coasts of the British Isles have stoked the imaginations of storytellers for millennia,lending a rich literary significance to these spaces between land and sea. For those who choose to explore these shores,generations of ghosts,sea-spirits,fairies and tentacled monsters come and go with the tide. This new collection of fifteen short stories,six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts of Great Britain,Ireland and the Isle of Man,including haunting pieces by Frances Hodgson Burnett,Bram Stoker and Charlotte Riddell.
Publisher: British Library PublishingISBN: 9780712354219Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm
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