Instead, we've got an evasion mechanic called Slipstream. Slipstream: We're underwater, so no creatures in the set have flying. Represents the mysterious divers who've arrived from above to excavate the seafloor. Then, whenever that creature hits a player or planeswalker in combat, you can grab one of the cards it's salvaged. When a creature salvages a card, you exile it from your graveyard. Salvage: An action keyword performed by a creature. Represents the horrifying monsters that lurk deep down in Cuxuri trench. Pressure: You may cast a spell with Pressure for an alternate cost if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard. Mechanics:Ĭoncord: A pseudo-mechanic that's active as long as you control four or more different types of permanents. A once-peaceful kingdom of fish and Merfolk is besieged from above by terrifying divers from the mysterious "surface" world, as well as horrifying monsters rising up from the bottomless Cuxuri trench. Hear the captivating voices of Weird Tales magazine contributors Sophie Wenzel Ellis and Greye La Spina, and bow down to the sensational and surreal imaginings of Alicia Ramsey and Leonora Carrington.Elmare is a plane that is entirely underwater. This new anthology presents the thrilling work of just a handful of writers crucial to the evolution of the genre, and revives lost authors of the early pulp magazines with material from the abyssal depths of the British Library vaults returning to the light for the first time since original publication.ĭelve in to see the darker side of The Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett and the sensitively-drawn nightmares of Marie Corelli and May Sinclair. It is too often accepted that during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was the male writers who developed and pushed the boundaries of the weird tale, with women writers following in their wake – but this is far from the truth. This title is a spiritual successor to Glimpses of the Unknown, an early Tales of the Weird title which has seen a positive response from fans, scholars and booksellers.
The majority of the volume is never before republished material, exclusive to the BL collections.
An anthology pulling together the stories of the forgotten women writers who pioneered and developed the ‘weird tale’ in the early 20th Century.
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