The Dead of Summer

By: Johnny Mains

Published by British Library, 2025-04

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! ​Featuring stories from classic authors such as E. F. Benson and Joan Aiken along with lost classics from obscure periodicals of Britain and America.