Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Daisy Butcher
Edited by Janette Leaf
SeriesBritish Library Tales of the Weird
Series part Volume No. 23
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 130
Category/GenreHorror and ghost stories
Classic horror and ghost stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780712353496
ClassificationsDewey:808.838438
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher British Library Publishing
Imprint British Library Publishing
Publication Date 17 June 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the counter. It bit him.' A brush with a killer hornet upends a reverend's life. A moth wreaks a strange vengeance on an entomologist. Bees deliver a supernatural dilemma to a mother-to-be. This new anthology offers a broad range of stories from the long history of insect literature, where six-legged beasts play many roles from lethal enemies to ethereal messengers. With expert notes on how each tale contributed to insect horror literature, Janette Leaf and Daisy Butcher are your field guides for a tour through classic insect encounters from the minds of Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson, Clare Winger Harris and many more.

Author Biography

Daisy Butcher is a scholar working on the Open Graves, Open Minds Project at the University of Hertfordshire. She is the editor of Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, published in this series in 2018. Janette Leaf is a scholar researching Gothic and weird insects at Birkbeck. She lectures on bugs in books at national and international conferences, and reviews for the British Society for Literature and Science.