“Book Descriptions: A mentally disturbed woman is entrapped in Beltane rituals in the Cumbrian fells; a widower mourning his wife falls beneath the mystic allure of Iona; a quest to the Italian Apennines brings a lonely man to a dread Marian revelation; an alcoholic on a Scottish isle is haunted by a deceased chronicler of local legend; in a small German town a sinister doll discloses truths about a murky family tragedy; an unknown journal by a Victorian travel-writer sends a woman on a grim odyssey to Transylvania; in a childhood holiday paradise a man encounters a demented artist's terrifying legacy.
The protagonists in Peter Bell's stories confront the awesome, the numinous, the uncanny, the lure of genius loci, and landscapes undergoing strange epiphanies.
Contents: Introduction by Brian J. Showers. Resurrection. M. E. F. The Light of the World. An American Writer's Cottage. Inheritance. A Midsummer Ramble in the Carpathians—long-listed for Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year 2012!. Nostalgia, Death and Melancholy. Afterword: Marie Emily Fornario — A Historical Note. Acknowledgements.” DRIVE