Robbery. Alcoholism. Trespass. Fornication. Murder. These are just five of over sixty themes to be found in this book you are considering buying. Kitty Brownbelt has gone to a great deal of trouble in compiling this melee of obscure folk narratives. Reading Dreadful Stories is like taking a walk around the night-time of the British imagination without your clothes on. You'll feel vulnerable and frightened but also strangely liberated and thrilled by the experience. These are tales of monstrous jealousy, bloody vengeance, nocturnal horror and parsley cultivation. Because the themes are so...

Kitty Brownbelt's second volume of folktales contains another fifty short stories that crouch in the horror-haunted caverns of the British psyche. Shiver in fright at the dreadful descent of Olc Ruda Gasp in fear as infants are flung into the Cave of Mothers Suffer with Gideon Wellwysher at the dread tolling of the Cellar Bell Tremble with unease at the Priest Hole's uncanny occupant Sicken with repulsion as the Devil becomes a novice nun called Sister Dorothy ...and many, many more terrors The folk-horror nightmares that dwell within the pages of Dreadful Stories Volume II are certain...