Crawling horror : creeping tales of the insect weird / edited by Daisy Butcher and Janette Leaf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butcher, Daisy, editor.

Leaf, Janette, editor.

Series:

Tales of the Weird

British Library tales of the weird

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales.

Genre:

Horror tales.

Short stories.

Horror fiction.

Physical Description:

317 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : British Library, 2021.

Summary:

"The insect kingdom has finally come to seek retribution for humankind's negligence. Never has a creature been so topical - with headlines warning of the mosquito bearing viruses, fire ants destroying power sources, invasive yellow ladybirds or an ecological insect apocalypse that threatens the very balance of our natural world. With growing concerns about global warming, pesticides, and genetically modified crops, Eco-Gothic is moving to the fore in modern scholarship, and this collection allows readers to be a fly on the wall to some of the creepiest and crawliest accounts of insectoid horror."--Publisher.

Contents:

The sphinx / Edgar Allan Poe

The blue beetle: a confession / A.G. Gray, Jun.

The mummy's soul / Anonymous

After three thousand years / Jane G. Austin

A dream of wild bees / Olive Schreiner

The moth / H.G. Wells

The captivity of the professor / A. Lincoln Green

The dream of Akinosuke and butterflies / Lafcadio Hearn

Caterpillars / E.F. Benson

An Egyptian hornet / Algernon Blackwood

The blue cockroach / Christopher Blayre

The wicked flea / J.U. Giesy

The miracle of the lily / Clare Winger Harris

Warning wings / Arlton Eadie

Beyond the star curtain / Garth Bentley

Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0712353496

9780712353496

OCLC:

1240209787

Publisher Number:

99988922127