The Dead of Summer : Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer : 19

Author: Johnny Mains

Holidays & seasonal interest

Published on 10 April 2025 by British Library Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of 'the British Library Gilded Nightmares' series.

Hardback | Illustrations
218 x 155 x 32mm | 758g

May Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve or the Summer Solstice. Tales of these fated days and nights, and their riotous rituals and feasts, have rung down the centuries, and yet in today's world those that observe their ancient ways are few.

Setting out on a mission to re-weird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with a collection of tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal to welcome the summer and raise the cry: Wyrd is Icumen in!