Dead Ink
Various | Beast Of England
9781917792868
08/10/26
HB
256 pages
“Every village has a story it doesn't tell its children. Beasts of England is a field guide to those stories.”
Beasts of England is an event anthology — eleven new short stories from some of the most distinctive voices in British weird, folk and horror fiction. Each writer was given one rule: pick a place you know and search the shadows.
The result is a national bestiary. A book that maps the country by its monsters, from a Cumbrian wood-thing with a hundred mouths to spring-heeled Jack outside a Surrey post office to whatever moves under the still water of Gormire Lake. Together they form a portrait of merry Albion that your tourist board would rather you didn't read.
A most accursed hardback.
This first edition of the Beasts of England Bestiary is a coveted tome to be locked away in your personal library where it can gather dust and an impending sense of dread. Cover-red sprayed edges reserved solely for the first-printing. Eleven full-page plates by Michael Lacey, threaded through the stories.