The night wire and other tales of weird media, edited by Aaron Worth
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The night wire and other tales of weird media, edited by Aaron Worth
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eng
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short stories
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The night wire and other tales of weird media
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1308596143
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edited by Aaron Worth
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British Library tales of the weird
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A mysterious news signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. X-ray evidence suggests the impossible truth that a sculptor is becoming one with his creation. A gramophone channels the venomous words of a churlish spirit and its cruel vengeance. The ground-breaking new technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries delivered their users into a world of unfathomable miracles and fresh nightmares – a world in which pioneers of weird fiction gave expression to anxieties generated by seemingly limitless communication and the capturing of images beyond the human eye. Tracing this fiction of speculation and fear from the motion photography of the 1890s to 1950s television, this new collection presents seventeen tales of haunted and uncanny media from a range of writers inspired by its ghastly potential, including Marjorie Bowen, H. Russell Wakefield, H. P. Lovecraft and Rudyard Kipling
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