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ISBN: 9781911752165
Publication date: September 30, 2026
Price: £12.99
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Haunted by the unseen and the unsettling, Giving the Darkness Life aims to capture the essence of gothic writing in Wales. Nick Freeman brings together fourteen writers who are deeply sensitive to Wales’ power as an imaginative resource. Drawing on folk traditions, superstitions and fears which are distinctly Welsh, these stories will horrify and delight in equal measure. Hyacinths grow at the site of a grave; spirits lurk in damp corners; birds are portents of death, and a baby cries in the night. From dark and menacing landscapes to the everyday horrors of domestic settings disturbingly close to home, these bone-chilling tales will linger long after the final page.
Featuring Mark Blayney, Mary-Ann Constantine, Damian Walford Davies, Caradoc Evans, Dorothy K. Haynes, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Arthur Machen, Elinor Mordaunt, John Llewellyn Probert, L.T.C. Rolt, Priya Sharma, Edward Thomas, Elizabeth Walter and D.P. Watt.
Nick Freeman
Nick Freeman was born in Yorkshire, grew up in the West Midlands, and is now a critic, editor, and writer of ghost stories based at Loughborough University. He has published widely on decadent, gothic and weird fiction, most recently curating collections of supernatural stories by A.M. Burrage and Elizabeth Walter. Nick has contributed to a number of BBC Radio programmes on gothic and is a regular speaker at literary festivals.
