Spooky tales that resurrect the mythological past

Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity

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Dark tourist guides to America

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory