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Phantoms of Kernow - (Tales of the Weird) by Joan Passey (Paperback)

Name: Phantoms of Kernow - (Tales of the Weird) by Joan Passey (Paperback)
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The phantoms are stirring once more.
About the Author: Joan Passey is a lecturer at the University of Bristol specializing in transhistorical Gothic fiction.
288 Pages
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Series Name: Tales of the Weird

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The phantoms are stirring once more.

"Onward came the ill-omened craft. It passed through the breakers on the shore, glided up over the sands, and steadily pursued its course over the dry land, as if it had been water."

Kernow--as Cornwall is known in the Cornish tongue--is a land haunted by a long heritage of ghost tales and uncanny folklore, from its wicked wreckers and the spectral death-ship to mine-dwelling fiends, blood-sucking abominations and the revenant spirits of a druidic past. And the phantoms are stirring once more.

In her new selection of sixteen stories hailing from 1865 to 1952, Joan Passey charts a course through this unique literary landscape, including timeless retellings of ghostly lore, rare Victorian chillers and weird nightmares by key figures of Cornish literature such as Sabine Baring-Gould, Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier.

About the Author

Joan Passey is a lecturer at the University of Bristol specializing in transhistorical Gothic fiction. She is the author of Cornish Gothic (2023, University of Wales Press) and editor of the Tales of the Weird collections Cornish Horrors (2021) and (with Jimmy Packham and Emily Alder) Our Haunted Shores (2022).

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.5 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W)

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 288

Genre: Non-Classifiable

Series Title: Tales of the Weird

Publisher: British Library

Format: Paperback

Author: Joan Passey

Language: English

Street Date: May 5, 2026

TCIN: 1007433431

UPC: 9780712355773

Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-7292

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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