Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen

Edward Parnell’s anthology gathers 17 short stories rooted in the landscapes of Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Dating from the 1900s to the 2010s, the collection brings together earlier ghost-story writers and contemporary practitioners, including M. R. James, Robert Aickman, E. F. Benson, Marjorie Bowen, Daisy Johnson and Matthew Holness.

Its settings include a seaside resort haunted by incessant bells, a Norfolk golf course disturbed by ancient rites and the Suffolk coast, where a discovered relic draws a threatening presence. The surrounding fens, marshes and wide, exposed country shape these accounts of dread and unease. Parnell contributes an introduction and headnotes that place each story within East Anglia’s literary tradition.