Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley
British Library Publishing
British Library Tales of the Weird
ISBN: 9780712369459
June 2026
Authors: Emily Brontë, Andrew Michael Hurley, Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Brontë, Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, Ted Hughes, Arthur Machen, Sabine Baring-Gould, Gertrude Atherton, L.T.C. Rolt, E. F. Benson, Phyllis Bentley, Lettice Galbraith, Michael Temple, F. W. Moorman.
The stars gave light enough for me to discern the figure as that of a man, but I could scarcely discover more. “Dark night, this,” I said. “Darker below,” he muttered, as though to himself; “darker, darker, darker.”
Yorkshire: a land entwined with a distinctive tradition of uncanny literature and folklore, home to twilit towns thronging with restless ghosts, woods alive with the whispers of fairies and vast moorlands stalked by boggarts and barghests after dark.
Exploring Yorkshire’s position as a heartland of British supernatural fiction, the stories and poems gathered here trace its weird literary heritage from medieval tales of shapeshifting spirits to the Gothic worlds of the Brontë sisters, and from wartime hauntings to modern folk horror. Including local legends from rare sources and unsettling stories from Arthur Machen, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Andrew Michael Hurley and many more, this collection offers glimpses of a stranger England hidden among the shadows of the dales.
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