Women's Weird - Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940

Women's Weird - Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940

Genre: short-stories, horror, fiction, anthologies

Published: 31-10-2019

Pages: 298

Rating: 4.02

Language: en

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Publisher: Handheld Press

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Description

Early Weird fiction embraces the supernatural, horror, science fiction, fantasy and the Gothic, and was explored with enthusiasm by many women writers in the United Kingdom and in the USA. Melissa Edmundson has brought together a compelling collection of the best Weird short stories by women from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to thrill new readers and delight these authors' fans.

Stories in this anthology:
Louisa Baldwin - The Weird of the Walfords (1889)
Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose (1890)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Giant Wistaria (1891)
Edith Nesbit - The Shadow (1910)
Edith Wharton – Kerfol (1916)
Francis Stevens – Unseen – Unfeared (1919)
Elinor Mordaunt - Hodge (1921)
May Sinclair - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched (1922)
Margery Lawrence - The Haunted Saucepan (1922)
Eleanor Scott - The Twelve Apostles (1929)
Margaret Irwin - The Book (1930)
D K Broster - Couching at the Door (1933)
Mary Butts - With and Without Buttons (1938)