WILDWOOD TALES OF TERROR AND TRANSFORMATION FROM THE FOREST

[William]

Unnamable nightmares lurk in the wild. Do you dare stray from the path?

WILDWOOD: TALES OF TERROR & TRANSFORMATION FROM THE FOREST is now available! Edited by bestselling anthologist William P. Simmons, an anthology of weird nature fiction with 15 rare and classic horror stories of haunted forests and sylvan dread. For sale at Amazon in both kindle and trade paperback… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0962N9RK1 .

Join pagan rituals in doom-laden groves and run with Pan through stygian glades. Encounter a weird wilderness of spirits, faerie, and furrow fiends….

Satyrs, nymphs, and faerie; elementals, nature spirits, and ancient gods; werewolves, ghosts, and witches tempt you to stray from the path. Collected from the late 19th-20th centuries, these stories inspire both terror and wonder. Experience the forest as a mysterious setting of sudden death, spiritual panic and metamorphosis; witness earth born entities; quake before nature as a sentient force suggesting other realities.

A wide range of sub-genres and supernatural motifs appear in this call to the wild, from rustic folk-horror and mystical nightmares to traditional ghost stories and cosmic fright. Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, E.M. Forster, Saki, Ralph Adams Cram, and H.F.W. Tatham appear beside obscure female authors Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, Theo Douglas, and others. They dare you to confront the darkest part of the woods…and your own natures.

This critical edition features a comprehensive Introduction examining weird nature fiction, Story Notes, Author Biographies, and Further Reading. An article on “Forest Folklore” by late ghost hunter Elliott O’Donnell is appendixed.

Get lost in the forest. You may survive but you won’t be unchanged.