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1slainbyanelf
Hi, all,
My name’s Trev, and I just arrived. I’ve ended up in LibraryThing (fine place that it is) after a long and unsuccessful search for a book I can’t remember the name of, nor the name of the author. Maybe you guys can help me?
Here’s what I know/remember about the book, the scant list of ‘clues’ that have led me everywhere and nowhere, and finally to here...
—It’s a collection/anthology of writings, not a single-author book. I’ve totally forgotten what the editor’s name is.
—Genre-wise, everything in the book is sort of uncanny, unnerving, unsettling. Definitely not outright horror, though, and with a sense that what’s written about is ‘true’, or might have been, or was believed to be true by the teller, etc...
—The collection is a real mix of forms: dark or spooky poems; stuff that’s modern (ish) and stuff written a century or more ago; half-believed fairytales and folk stories and local legends and lore. There might even be some anecdotes and testimonies and ‘eye-witness’ accounts of people’s brushes with weird fairy-type folk...
—I could be wrong about this, but I think (sorta, maybe) that the collection was specifically ‘British’: like, British poems and stories and tales and spooky faded lore, written or told by British writers/storytellers. Might even have been British and Irish.
—I can remember only two specific, titled-and-authored pieces from the book, both of them poems. One is ‘The Beast’ by contemporary and alive Liverpudlian poet Brian Patten, and the other is the famous poem ‘The Fairies’ by Irish, old-timey and dead poet William Allingham.
—I can’t recall the publisher or date of publication, but I do know it wasn’t a shabby, obviously cheapy-cheapy book. It wasn’t badly self-published or local press or a vanity-publication job: I wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the old, grand(er) publishers, Penguin or something like that. It was a paperback and though not new it wasn’t super-old, either: maybe 1980s, early 1990s...
And that’s it. I’ve gone on way too long and given you (whoever’s made it this far) way too little. Thanks for reading on.
Right. If someone recognises the tricksy fella sketchily outlined above, or can track him down, I’d be dead grateful.
Big hellos and thanks to you all.
Trev
My name’s Trev, and I just arrived. I’ve ended up in LibraryThing (fine place that it is) after a long and unsuccessful search for a book I can’t remember the name of, nor the name of the author. Maybe you guys can help me?
Here’s what I know/remember about the book, the scant list of ‘clues’ that have led me everywhere and nowhere, and finally to here...
—It’s a collection/anthology of writings, not a single-author book. I’ve totally forgotten what the editor’s name is.
—Genre-wise, everything in the book is sort of uncanny, unnerving, unsettling. Definitely not outright horror, though, and with a sense that what’s written about is ‘true’, or might have been, or was believed to be true by the teller, etc...
—The collection is a real mix of forms: dark or spooky poems; stuff that’s modern (ish) and stuff written a century or more ago; half-believed fairytales and folk stories and local legends and lore. There might even be some anecdotes and testimonies and ‘eye-witness’ accounts of people’s brushes with weird fairy-type folk...
—I could be wrong about this, but I think (sorta, maybe) that the collection was specifically ‘British’: like, British poems and stories and tales and spooky faded lore, written or told by British writers/storytellers. Might even have been British and Irish.
—I can remember only two specific, titled-and-authored pieces from the book, both of them poems. One is ‘The Beast’ by contemporary and alive Liverpudlian poet Brian Patten, and the other is the famous poem ‘The Fairies’ by Irish, old-timey and dead poet William Allingham.
—I can’t recall the publisher or date of publication, but I do know it wasn’t a shabby, obviously cheapy-cheapy book. It wasn’t badly self-published or local press or a vanity-publication job: I wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the old, grand(er) publishers, Penguin or something like that. It was a paperback and though not new it wasn’t super-old, either: maybe 1980s, early 1990s...
And that’s it. I’ve gone on way too long and given you (whoever’s made it this far) way too little. Thanks for reading on.
Right. If someone recognises the tricksy fella sketchily outlined above, or can track him down, I’d be dead grateful.
Big hellos and thanks to you all.
Trev
2gilroy
Hi and welcome to Librarything! You'll probably find the answer you seek in our Name That Book! group, where they specialize in finding lost titles:
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