Cornish Horrors Tales from the Land's End

A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the Cornish woods, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed the crime.

Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the county in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism.

With tales by horror luminaries such as Bram Stoker, Poe, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, this edition also features a host of underappreciated writers such as F. Tennyson Jesse and Margery Williams – said to be a strong influence on Lovecraft’s writing.

Joan Passey is a teacher and researcher at the University of Bristol specializing in transhistorical Gothic fiction. Her first book, Cornish Gothic, is upcoming with University of Wales Press and she has previously published on Ann Radcliffe, Wilkie Collins, and Shirley Jackson.

Introduction

Ligeia - Edgar Allan Poe
My Father's Secret - Anonymous
Cruel Coppinger - Robert Stephen Hawker
Colonel Benyon's Entanglement - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Phantom Hare - M. H.
Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House - Clara Venn
In the Mist - Mary E. Penn
The Baronet's Craze - Mrs. H. L. Cox
The Coming of Abel Behenna - Bram Stoker
The Roll-Call of the Reef - Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Haunted Spinny - Elliott O'Donnell
A Ghostly Visitation - E. M Bray
The Screaming Skull - F. Marion Crawford
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - Arthur Conan Doye
The Mask - F Tennyson Jesse