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Doomed Romances

British Library Tales of the Weird #45

Doomed Romances

Strange Tales of Uncanny Love

Joanne Ella Parsons

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January 25, 2024

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'Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood. Let us go to sleep now.'

A prophecy threatens a volcanic upheaval for a star-crossed pair. A forbidden rite binds a dark arts dabbler to a phantom bride. A barstool chancer invites a devilish retribution on the dance floor. 

Beckoning from this tome are twelve tales of dark romance and undying passions hailing from 1832 to 2022, marrying bewitching classics by Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins and Angela Carter with twisting modern pieces by Nalo Hopkinson, Tracy Fahey and V. Castro - alongside the classic Gothic novella of sapphic vampire romance, Carmilla. Indulging in the strangest eddies of literary love, this new anthology bids you enter a doom-laden yet irresistibly seductive corner of the Weird. 

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#1From the Depths #2Haunted Houses #3Glimpses of the Unknown #4Mortal Echoes #5Spirits of the Season #6The Platform Edge #7The Face in the Glass #8The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson #9Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy #10Evil Roots #11Promethean Horrors #12Roarings from Further Out #13Tales of the Tattooed #14The Outcast: and Other Dark Tales by E F Benson #15A Phantom Lover #16Into the London Fog #17Weird Woods #18Queens of the Abyss #19Chill Tidings #20Dangerous Dimensions #21Heavy Weather #22Minor Hauntings #23Crawling Horror #24Cornish Horrors #25I Am Stone #26Randalls Round #27Sunless Solstice #28Shadows on the Wall #29The Ghost Slayers #30The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media #31Our Haunted Shores #32The Horned God #33Spectral Sounds #34Haunters at the Hearth #35Polar Horrors #36The Flaw in the Crystal: And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair #37The Ways of Ghosts #38Holy Ghosts #39The Uncanny Gastronomic #40The Lure of Atlantis #41Dead Drunk #42The House on the Borderland #43Roads of Destiny #44Circles of Stone #45Doomed Romances #46The Undying Monster #47Fear in the Blood #48Out of the Past #49The Night Land #50Deadly Dolls #51The Human Chord #52Eerie East Anglia #53The Haunted Trail #54The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes #55The Haunted Vintage #56Summoned to the Séance #57Weird Sisters #58Julia Roseingrave #59Spores of Doom #60Medusa #61Return of the Ancients #62Phantoms of Kernow #63The Lost Stradivarius #64The Wayfarer's Weird #65The Tiger-Skin #66All the Fear of the Fair #67The Haunted Library #68Possessed #69Bird of Ill Omen #70The Black Fox #71The New Flesh #72The Luck of the Town #73Beasts with Five Fingers #74Haunted Yorkshire #75Danse Macabre #76The Black Mirror #77Fiendish Felines #78 · Coming 2026Terror Australis #79 · Coming 2026A Walk on the Weird Side #80 · Coming 2026The Unwelcome
About the author

Joanne Ella Parsons

Dr Jo Parsons has been a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Falmouth University since 2019.

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