{"product_id":"medusa-e-h-visiak-9780712355728","title":"Medusa","description":"\"...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.","brand":"British Library Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52037607555360,"sku":"9780712355728","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780712355728.jpg?v=1785052569","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/medusa-e-h-visiak-9780712355728","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}