Let a Sleeping Witch Lie
Welsh Gothic Stories
- Auteur: Elizabeth Walter (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Gothic verhalen uit Wales
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Seren Books
- Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Elizabeth Walter Let a Sleeping Witch Lie review, recensie en informatie
Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Let a Sleeping Wotch Lie, Welsh Gothic Stories van de Engelse schrijfster Elizabeth Walter, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.
Flaptekst van het boek met gothic verhalen uit Wales van Elizabeth Walter
“Old ways die hard on the Welsh border…”
In these haunting tales, nothing is as it seems. A tormented voice calls from the barred windows of an empty room. A dusty museum exhibit possesses sinister powers. A glass of blackberry wine links the living with the sins of the dead.
Between 1965 and 1975, Elizabeth Walter published five collections of supernatural stories. But whilst the names of her contemporaries such as Robert Aickman are now widely recognised, Walter is relatively unknown to modern readers. Mixing folklore, history, and ancient traditions, these gothic stories draw on Walter’s Welsh heritage and the rich inspiration of South Wales and the border country.
Including the mysterious ritual of ‘The Sin-Eater’, the folk horror of ‘Dead Woman’ and the poignant ‘Come and Get Me’, Let a Sleeping Witch Lie is the perfect way to rediscover Elizabeth Walter’s chillingly remarkable talent.
Elizabeth Walter (Londen, 1927 – 8 May 2006) was a British novelist, short story writer and editor of the Collins Crime Club for over thirty years. As an author she penned many stories in the field of supernatural and ghostly fiction as well as of ‘quiet’ horror. Walter’s uncanny tales have appeared in famous anthologies such as The Pan Books of Horror Stories and The Fontana Books of Great Ghost Stories. She published five collections of short stories: Snowfall & Other Chilling Events (1965), The Sin-Eater & Other Scientific Impossibilities (1967), Davy Jones’s Tale & Other Supernatural Stories (1971), Come And Get Me & Other Uncanny Invitations (1973), Dead Woman & Other Haunting Experiences (1975).