This Dreaming Isle

"It was always our intention to allow the contributing authors a free rein when it came to their stories--we asked only that they should tie them to a specific place in the British Isles, and should in some way explore the myths and traditins, the folklore and history that make this land unique. What's startling upon reading these stories together, in one volume, us that so many of them occupy that territory commonly called 'folk horror'. We are faced with haunted lochs and medieval witches, spectral appartitions and Black Magic.... [T]he stories in This Dreaming Isle make one thing clear: there are rich veins of weirdness running through the soil here, an underground river of the strange and the unsettling that has been part of Britain's cultural landscape for centuries, and shows no signs of drying up any time soon."--introduction.