An anthology of new, strange and weird fiction, from the dawn of the 20th century through the aftermath of the Great War.
Seventeen new, unsettling and strange stories set between 1901 and 1919 - from the death of Queen Victoria to the immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Spanish Influenza epidemic. This is classic Weird Fiction, subverting many standard tropes, with strong psychological components, evoking Edwardian dread.Edited by John Linwood Grant (The Book of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives, Occult Detective Quarterly)
Table of ContentsA Light, Electric -- Terry Grimwood
Fly in the Ointment -- Christina Ladd
Red Trunk -- David E Kruegger
Panic -- E Saxey
Scratch -- Katie Magnusson
The Aftermath of Failing to Touch a Star -- Tim Prasil
The Dreaming Dead -- Liam Hogan
Cleander -- John McFarland
The Bull Nose Pistol -- Tim Newton Anderson
The Monkey Box -- DJ Tyrer
Blue Bench -- D Glenn Seguin
Who is the Third? -- Nadia Steven Rysing
Cold Hands -- W L Silverwood
When the Sea Gives up Her Dead -- Ian A Watson
Prevailing Winds -- C A Collins
The Thaumatrope -- Victoria Yardley
An Indefinite Kingdom -- Josh Reynolds