Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird

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Sheridan Le Fanu and his niece, Rhoda Broughton. Louisa Baldwin and her nephew, Rudyard Kipling. Nathaniel Hawthorne, his son, Julian, and his grand-daughter, Hildegarde. Joan Aiken and her father, Conrad. The greatest storytellers of the weird and uncanny are conduits of the supernatural and macabre, channelling through their writing secret glimpses into the sublime, or into worlds of terror. In this new anthology, Mike Ashley traces the phenomenon of families in which that skill for channelling the weird seems to pass down the bloodlines, cultivating family trees whose output forms a large part of the canon of speculative fiction. Mikes selection includes a story from each family member in a given lineage focusing on tales in which family relationships are a core element to bestow the reader with the chilling gifts of generations of fearful fiction.

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Mike Ashley is an author, anthologist and editor with a specialism for seeking out rare strange stories from the periodicals and magazines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is an expert in the fields of weird fiction and classic mystery stories, and an authority on the development of the occult detection tale.