British Weird

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Featured stories include:

‘Man-Size in Marble’ by Edith Nesbit (1893)
‘No-Man’s Land’, John Buchan (1900)
‘The Willows’, by Algernon Blackwood (1907)
‘Caterpillars’, by E F Benson (1912)
‘N’ by Arthur Machen (1934)
‘Mappa Mundi’ by Mary Butts (1937)
British Weird also includes the full text of Mary Butts’ seminal 1933 essay ‘”Ghoulies and Ghosties”. Use of the Supernatural in English Fiction’. James Machin’s introduction describes the background for these excellent stories in the Weird tradition, and identifies their use of peculiarly British preoccupations in supernatural short fiction.