History Literature / SleepNoMore

* TheBaroness: In "Music hath Charms" Count Henneze's mistress "La Pucelle" is implied to be this, with rumors suggesting that she ultimately betrayed the Count and stole his treasures. [[spoiler: After James is corrupted by the music box his mistress Jeanne takes on the nickname of "La Pucelle" as well and her physical appearance certainly matches the trope.]]

* OminousMusicBoxTune: The music box in ""Music hath Charms" plays a discordant tune that causes the world around it to shake.

* AuthorTract: Considering the author would later go onto play a significant role in railway and canal preservation, the locale of many of the horror stories being along industrial settings plays into Rolt's advocacy for real life historic preservation.

* "New Corner": a automobile raceway is cursed with a string of accidents after a new bank in the track disturbs a site of the super natural.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: perhaps a lesser version of the trope, but George Frimley plays this role in "Hawley Bank Foundry" constantly pushing his workers to continue working on reactivating the titular foundry despite the growing signs the grounds are haunted.

* "Hawley Bank Foundry": a successful businessman attempts to reopen an abandoned forge during the Blitz, only to discover the site's dark secret.

* ReligionOfEvil: the cult gatherings practiced by [[spoilers: the villagers of Cwm Garon.]]

* "The House of Vengeance":

* OminousMusicBoxTune: The music box in ""Music hath Charms" plays a discordant tune that causes the world around it to shake.

* "The House of Vengeance":

* "The Mine" miners recount the supernatural hauntings within the "Hell's Mouth" mine.
* "The Cat Returns" A honeymooning couple finds themselves stranded at a haunted manor with a mysterious owner.
* "Bosworth Summit Pound" a canal boater dives into the tragic and supernatural deaths of Mary Grimsden and John Lofthouse.
* "New Corner" a automobile raceway is cursed with a string of accidents after a new bank in the track disturbs a site of the super natural.
* "Cwm Garon" an isolated and picturesque Welsh village hides a dark secret.
* "A Visitor at Ashcombe" a historian describes the ill-fated attempts to settle into Ashcombe Manor by a Mr. and Mrs. Bingley.
* "The Garside Fell Disaster" a railway man on the fictional Carlisle railway line, manning a lonely signal box outside the Garside Fell tunnel sees signs of doom and is unable to prevent a deadly train wreck.
* "World's End" visions of their future death haunt patrons of a rural inn.
* "Hear not my Steps" a skeptical ghost investigator becomes a victim of a violent specter.
* "Agony of Flame" a haunted Irish island traumatizes boaters who visit it.
* "Hawley Bank Foundry" a successful businessman attempts to reopen an abandoned forge during the Blitz, only to discover the site's dark secret.
* "Music hath Charms" two friends discover a supernatural music box hidden in a coastal manor once favored by smugglers.
* "The Shouting" a man explains his fear of the woods.
* "The House of Vengeance"

''Sleep No More'' is a 1948 {{horror}} and GhostStory anthology by author Creator/LTCRolt. Focused on Rolt's love of history and engineering, all the stories fit into the "antiquarian horror" genre (in the same style as Creator/MontagueRhodesJames) via setting each one in some sort of historical or industrial setting within Britain, from lone manor houses, to railway tunnels, to iron foundries and hidden Welsh valleys. Many of the stories rely on a NothingIsScarier approach with UnseenEvil lurking around the corner, as the various characteres are consumed by a sense of dread which slowly erodes their StiffUpperLip mentalities.

''Sleep No More'' is a 1948 {{horror}} and GhostStory anthology by author Creator/LTCRolt. Focused on Rolt's love of history and engineering, all the stories fit into the "antiquarian horror" genre (in the same style as Creator/MontagueRhodesJames) via setting each one in some sort of historical or industrial setting within Britain, from lone manor houses, to railway tunnels, to iron foundries and hidden Welsh valleys. Many of the stories rely on a NothingIsScarier approach with UnseenEvil lurking around the corner, as the various characteres are consumed by a sense of dread which slowly erodes the StiffUpperLip of the various British characters in the anthology collection.