Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf & Edgar Allan Poe & A. G. Gray Jr. & Anonymous & Jane G. Austin & Olive Schreiner & H. G. Wells & A. Lincoln Green & Lafcadio Hearn & E. F. Benson & Algernon Blackwood & Christopher Blayre & J. U. Giesy & Clare Winger Harris & Arlton Eadie & Garth Bentley & Carl Stephenson
Book 23 of British Library Tales of the Weird
Language: English
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: Jan 1, 2021
Description:
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.