Phantoms of Kernow
Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall
As the storm booms out in the bay and the waves smash against the rocks, the masts of a cursed and spectral vessel are drawing near. As the mists roll over Bodmin moor, the moonlight reveals a night alive with spirits.
Welcoming a fresh roster of seaside spectres, tin-mine terrors and holiday haunters, this return to the bountiful fold of Cornish horror fiction features more lost classics from Victorian periodicals alongside atmospheric tales from the great twentieth-century writers of the Cornish weird such as Mary Williams, Mary Butts and Sabine Baring-Gould.
Joan Passey is a lecturer at the University of Bristol specialising in transhistorical Gothic fiction. She is the author of Cornish Gothic (University of Wales Press) and co-founder of the Haunted Shores research network. She was the editor of Cornish Horrors for the British Library Tales of the Weird series.
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