REVIEW BY CH
This magazine should reach you in November, bridging the period between Hallowe’en and Christmas – both dates traditionally associated with the sharing of spooky stories. If you would like your frights to have an archaeological flavour, this slim but spine-chilling volume should do the trick (or treat), offering an anthology of 17 tales exploring the uncanny impact of sculpted stone, the malign purposes that may lie behind its creation, and how it might become a vessel for supernatural forces. Spanning the Victorian period to the Second World War, encompassing such subjects as statues, gargoyles, and standing stones, and including the works of antiquarians like Sabine Baring-Gould, celebrated weavers of the weird like H P Lovecraft, and many less-famous names, The Living Stone is an enjoyably eerie read. There are no illustrations, but with such atmospheric accounts your imagination can more than fill in the gaps.
Henry Bartholomew (ed.) Handheld Press, £13.99 ISBN 978-1912766765
Just Out and Coming Soon
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia
David Boulton
Oxbow, £39.95
ISBN 978-1914427251
Bronze Age Barrow and Pit Alignments at Upton Park, South of Weedon Road, Northampton
Yvonne Wolframm-Murray, Jim Burke, and Rob Atkins
Archaeopress, £32
ISBN 978-1803276229
Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, and Saxon Settlements along the Route of the A43 Corby Link Road, Northamptonshire
Stephen Morris, Simon Markus, and Jim Brown
Archaeopress, £55
ISBN 978-1803276069
Lost Country Houses of North and East Yorkshire
Ian Greaves
Amberley, £15.99
ISBN 978-1398116245
50 Post-Medieval and Modern Finds
Laura Burnett and Rob Webley
Amberley, £15.99
ISBN 978-1398114678
The English and Their History
Robert Tombs
Penguin, £18.99
ISBN 978-1802064230
Unruly: a history of England’s kings and queens
David Mitchell
Penguin, £25
ISBN 978-1405953177
