Bard Hedd Wyn was killed in action in France in 1917.
Bernice Rubens won the 1970 Booker prize for her novel, The Elected Member, and is the only Welsh person to have ever won the prize.
These five works of Welsh gothic literature will not only help you explore Wales through the macabre but are likely to give you a good scare too.
Much of what we know about the life of the sixth century monk, St David, comes from medieval texts written several centuries later.
The miners might be fondly remembered, but
literature helps us bear in mind the environmental damage the industry caused.