Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Women's Weird, British Weird is a new anthology of classic Weird short fiction by British writers, first published between the 1890s and the 1930s. Curated by James Machin, author of Weird Fiction in Britain, 1880-1939, this collection assembles stories to thrill, entertain and chill, and includes: 'Man-Size in Marble', by Edith Nesbit (1893), 'No-Man's Land', John Buchan (1900), 'The Willows', by Algernon Blackwood (1907), 'Caterpillars', by E F Benson (1912), 'N', by Arthur Machen (1934), 'Mappa Mundi', by Mary Butts (1937), Also included, Mary Butts' influential 1933 essay on supernatural writing, 'Ghosties and Ghoulies'. The Introduction reveals how early British Weird fiction brought its readers to the things half-seen, or the things that should not have been there, but were most terrifying present. Book jacket.