Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895–1954 edited by Amara Thornton & Kay Soar

(Handheld Press, 2022)

Reviewed by Andy Sawyer

Much supernatural or ‘weird’ fiction goes something like this: antiquarian digs up relic from the past: something horrible happens. Thornton and Soar, themselves archaeologists, have curated a collection that specifically focuses upon how weird fiction engages with archaeology, and the book has already caused something of a stir in the archaeological community. While the dozen stories here are (mostly) within that reductive summary, this is a well put-together volume combining familiar favourites with lesser-known works.

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