Wales is a land with a vast wealth of ghost stories, including fantastical animals, flickering death omens and unseen things that go bump in the night.
Wales is a land with a vast wealth of ghost stories, including fantastical animals, flickering death omens and unseen things that go bump in the night.
Russ Williams was raised on Wales's stories, like the one about a mountain that would send you mad or turn you into a gifted poet if you camped out on it, the one about the lost civilisation drowned by the sea and the one about the bottomless lake leading down to the Welsh Otherworld.
While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment.
This wide-ranging book contains twelve chapters by scholars who explore aspects of the fascinating field of Celtic mythology - from myth and the medieval to comparative mythology, and the new cosmological approach.
A revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -their appeal, who believes them, how they spread -with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives.
A revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -their appeal, who believes them, how they spread -with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives.
Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends ofVirginia explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Virginia's history.
Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends ofVirginia explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Virginia's history.
THE LIMINAL HYPOTHESIS: A Compendium of Unexplained PhenomenaThirty-five years navigating rigid heavy vehicles through the isolated Welsh Black Mountains and Cotswolds teaches you to pay attention to the spaces between things.
The story of the volsungs: With excerpts from the poetic Edda is an Old Norse saga that unites myth, legend, and heroic destiny into an enduring narrative of courage and tragedy.
An essential read for fans of OutlanderDuring the first half of the eighteenth century, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his diehard supporters the Jacobites almost changed the course of British history.
Myths and myth-makers examines the universal patterns and origins of mythological narratives through scholarly analysis of folklore traditions from diverse cultures.
An essential read for fans of OutlanderDuring the first half of the eighteenth century, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his diehard supporters the Jacobites almost changed the course of British history.
Fairy tales from the Arabian nights presents a collection of imaginative narratives drawn from a richly symbolic storytelling tradition centered on wonder, desire, and transformation.
Alaeddin and the enchanted lamp presents a set of stories shaped by the imaginative depth and moral complexity found in traditional Middle Eastern folklore.
The Algonquin legends of New England or myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes presents a rich gathering of traditional narratives drawn from Indigenous cultures of the north-eastern regions.
Fairy tales, their origin and meaning: With some account of dwellers in fairyland explores the enduring presence of traditional stories and the deeper ideas that have allowed them to persist across cultures.
The life and death of cormac the skald is a historical narrative rooted in Icelandic tradition, composed between the mid-13th and early 14th centuries and later translated in the early 20th century.
