Crawling Horror Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird - British Library Tales of the Weird

'What a terrible calamity, what a stupefying circumstance, if mosquitoes were the size of camels, and a herd of wild slugs the size of elephants invaded our gardens and had to be shot with rifles...' A blue scarab which makes the sound of a terrifying death-tick. A moth with the markings of a dead man's face. An empire of intelligent, aggressive, and colossal ants. 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 from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, E.F. Benson, and Jane G. Austin. Fear indeed walks on many legs.

ISBN:	9780712353496
Publisher:	British Library Publishing
Imprint:	British Library Publishing
Published date:	17 Jun 2021
DEWEY:	808.838438
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	288
Weight:	230g
Height:	131mm
Width:	189mm
Spine width:	28mm

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