Book of the Month February 2024

Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

With Circles of Stone editor Katy Soar has collected together a hugely entertaining, engaging and enchanting selection of stories that fit together seamlessly and brilliantly. Circles of Stone is a classic page turner, that includes both familiar authors and one or two that have been lost in the mists of time. Misty moors and strange liminal spaces provide the settings for many of these stories of uncanny happenings, unexplainable phenomena and magical goings on.

“The standing stones, stone circles, dolmens and burial sites of the British Isles still resonate with mystery of their primeval origins, enthralling our collective consciousness to this day. Rising up in the field of weird fiction, ancient stones and the rituals and dark forces they once witnessed have inspired a wicked branch of the genre by writers devoted to their eerie potential.

Gathered in tribute to these relics of a lost age – and their pagan legacy of blood – are fifteen stories of haunted henges, Druidic vengeance and solid rock alive with bloodlust, by authors including Algernon Blackwood, Lisa Tuttle, Arthur Machen and Nigel Kneale.”