Victorian Tales of the Weird, Nick Rennison

Victorian Tales of the Weird, Nick RennisonNew Paperback From a dancing automaton running amok at a ball, to a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of a Yorkshire cave, this anthology explores the nature of the old weird, and unordinary stories which go outside the boundaries of everyday life. The anthology includes not only stories by well known writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, but also by long forgotten authors such as D. F. Hannigan and Reginald Bacchus. Focusing

Mrs Smith made a gruesome discovery in a cupboard: a human skull

What should we do if we find a corpse

while Blackpool is unrivaled anywhere for spectacular seaside architecture

understand their behaviour and movements

Along the way he meets a vivid cast of animals: from an anxious monkey and a tortoise tired of life

to her own parents’ flight from Ukraine when their town was occupied in 2022

And under the orders of Thomas Cromwell

but when her mother passes away

Jones's Icones contains finely delineated paintings of more than 760 species of Lepidoptera

is back with her most compulsive and personal book yet: a revelatory journey into the mirror world of our polarised age

In a wide-ranging series of “postcards” from the peripheries of India

With the arrival of the Second World War