Anthology
Homefront Horrors: Frights Away From the Front Lines, 1914-1918 (Dover Mystery, Detective, Ghost Stories and Other Fiction)
2016·240 pages
Anthology of WWI-era British supernatural horror tales featuring ghosts, ghouls, and weird fiction as escapist fare.
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Anthology of WWI-era British supernatural horror tales featuring ghosts, ghouls, and weird fiction as escapist fare.
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"The anxiety and dread of wartime Britain is recaptured in this anthology of horror stories and supernatural fiction dating from 1914-18. Rather than taking war as their theme, the tales offer readers escapist fare populated by ghosts, ghouls, and other malevolent spirits. Written amid the golden age of horror fiction -- the decades between the turn of the twentieth century and 1940, when tales of terror and the weird flourished -- these stories constitute forgotten gems by neglected masters. Se...
What's Inside
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Romance & sex
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Minor romantic rivalries depicted in one haunted pavilion story.
Violence & gore
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Execution scene and ghostly visitations with implied peril.
Profanity
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No profanity present
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation present
Religious content
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Devil's pact and historical execution with religious context.
Magic & witchcraft
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Ghosts, reincarnation, time travel, and supernatural hauntings.
Occult / demonology
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Fictional demonic bargain and ghostly visitations.
Political content
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Reflects WWI British homefront anxieties through escapist tales.
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Inheritance schemes, loss, and historical execution themes.
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