Sunless Solstice
Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights
Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such things should actually become real.
Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and Robert Aickman.
Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits, vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm – and prepare for the longest nights of all.
Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk are curators in the Printed Heritage Collections team at the British Library. Lucy works primarily with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books and was the curator of the children’s literature exhibition, Marvellous and Mischievous. Tanya is Lead Curator for the period 1601–1900. She was a co-curator of the exhibition Terror & Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, and has edited the Tales of the Weird collections Spirits of the Season (2018) and Chill Tidings (2020).
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