Spectral Sounds

Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird

Manon Burz-Labrande

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English

British Library
01 February 2023

Anthologies (non-poetry); Classic horror & ghost stories; Short Stories Horror

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

'Darkness now was around me – and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.'

The violent peals of a disconnected bell in the night; a trudging footfall in the hush of an abandoned manor; the whisper of a deathly voice in the ear: uncanny sounds remain the most frightening heralds of danger and terror in supernatural fiction. Gathered here are fourteen tales which resonate with the unique note of fear struck by weird happenings experienced through the aural sense.

Divided into four sections exploring noises from invisible presences, ghostly voices, possessed technology and the power of extreme levels of sound or silence, this collection pulses with pioneering pieces from B. M. Croker, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton and M. P. Shiel alongside haunting obscurities from the British Library collections.

Edited by: Manon Burz-Labrande
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 33
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712354172
ISBN 10: 0712354174
Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MANON BURZ-LABRANDE is a researcher based at the University of Vienna who specialises in the content, history and literary influence of penny bloods and penny dreadfuls. Throughout her research she has pursued an interest in the role and significance of sound in Gothic and strange fiction.