Out of the Past edited by Aaron Worth

Out of the Past: Tales of Haunting History

Summoning eleven stories chosen for their uncanny portrayals of weird history, this collection presents a dark timeline of grim visions harking from plague-racked England to revolutionary France and culminating in the last gasps of the nineteenth century.

Incudes stories by the greatest writers of history-turned-horrifying such as Marjorie Bowen, Frederick Cowles, Vernon Lee and the lost genius of Vincent O’Sullivan. This volume is capped by two of Aaron Worth’s own tales of Victorian macabre alongside a chiller evoking M.R. James by Sheila Hodgson, the adapter of his stories for radio.

Aaron Worth is a professor at Boston University and a celebrated editor and short story writer.