Out of the Past: Tales of Haunting History (SHELF WORN)

**This book has some shelf wear, which could be a bumped corner, cover tear less than 1 cm, or a bent cover. Shelf worn titles have only minor damage, and thus cannot be returned by us to the publisher. We sell shelf worn titles at 25% off the cover price. These titles are final sale.** “Come inside, my bonny witch-finder. Here is shelter for thee…” A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth century Italy. A witch-finder’s great triumph is also the herald of his own doom in sixteenth-century Britain. A prisoner’s fate at the hands of the Inquisition in seventeenth-century Mexico leads to an encounter with the bestial and bizarre beneath the waves. Readers and writers have been fascinated with the past long before the term ‘historical fiction’ became recognized as its own genre of writing. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tellers of strange tales saw the weird potential in setting stories within the realms of previous centuries, and the chance to ev