{"title":"E.H. Visiak","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"medusa-a-novel-of-mystery-ecstasy-and-strange-horror","title":"Medusa: a Novel of Mystery, Ecstasy and Strange Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"...a little on one side of me, I spied something that moved along upon the verge with a sliding writhing motion, seeming like the extremity of a sort of trunk; like the body of a huge serpent... Drawn by horror's fearful traction, I moved to the verge of the parapet and looked down...\" Somewhere around the early eighteenth century, young Will Harvell joins a sea voyage in search of a mariner's missing son which gradually finds itself drawn towards an ancient and indescribable terror of the ocean in E. H. Visiak's classic novel, which returns to print featuring a new introduction by horror expert Aaron Worth. Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure with Atlantean mythology and a uniquely unsettling brand of metaphysical, sublime horror-all delivered in Visiak's high literary style- Medusa remains a distinctive, influential and still exciting work in the history of early twentieth-century weird writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Library Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51245530087755,"sku":"2243390","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/eh-visiak.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}