The sea that night sang rather than chanted;
all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam,
and the waves, white-crested, came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose.
'From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling shingles and silted estuaries,
the coasts of the British Isles have stoked the imaginations of storytellers for millennia,
lending a rich literary significance to these spaces between land and sea.

For those who choose to explore these shores, generations of ghosts, sea-spirits, fairies and tentacled monsters come and go with the tide.
This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man,
including haunting pieces by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bram Stoker and Charlotte Riddell.