Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall
By (Author) Joan Passey
62
British Library Publishing
British Library Publishing
17th September 2025
19th June 2025
United Kingdom
Non Fiction
Classic horror and ghost stories
Paperback
Width 130mm, Height 190mm, Spine 30mm
335g
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.