Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
(Part of the British Library Tales of the Weird (#23) Series and British Library Tales of the Weird Series)
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'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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0712353496
ISBN13:9780712353496
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:British Library
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.1" x 7.4"
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