Our Haunted Shores - Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles

Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles, edited by Jimmy Packham, Emily Napier, and Joan Passey / From the British Library's "Tales of the Weird" series / ISBN 9780712354219 / 318-page paperback published in 2022

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From the unsettling expanses of mud flats to foreboding cliffs and treacherous reefs, the coasts of the British Isles have provided inspiration for storytellers for millennia, creating a rich literary and cultural significance to these spaces in between the land and sea.

The shoreline can be a destination for pleasure, but it is also the rife with peril. In this new collection, the founders of the Haunted Shores Research Network have curated a chilling literary tour of the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, including tales of woeful shipwreck, lighthouse terrors and uncanny revenants amid the bustle of the harborside.