More deadly than the male : masterpieces from the queens of horror

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  • Contributor:

    Davis, Graeme

    ,

    Vance, Simon

    ,

    Lister, Ralph

    ,

    Lloyd, Helen

    ,

    Wane, Esther

    ,

    Arserio, Shiromi

    ,

    Langton, James

    ,

    Campbell, Tim

    ,

    Froomkin, Joel Leslie

    ,

    Naudus, Natalie

    ,

    Barrett, Joe

    Summary:

    A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.

    Contents:
    • Introduction / Graeme Davis
    • The transformation / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    • The dark lady / Mrs. S.C. Hall
    • Morton Hall / Elizabeth Gaskell
    • A ghost story / Ada Trevanion
    • An engineer's story / Amelia B. Edwards
    • Lost in a pyramid, or the mummy's curse / Louisa May Alcott
    • Tom Toothacre's ghost story / Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Kentucky's ghost / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    • At Chrighton Abbey / Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    • The fate of Madam Cabanel / Liza Lynn Linton
    • Forewarned, forearmed / Mrs. J.H. Riddell
    • The portrait / Margaret Oliphant
    • The shrine of death / Lady Dilke
    • The Beckside boggle / Alice Rea
    • The hidden door / Vernon Lee
    • Unexplained / Mary Louisa Molesworth
    • Let loose / Mary Cholmondely
    • The cave of the echoes / Helena Blavatsky
    • The yellow wall paper / Charlott Perkins Gilman
    • The mass for the dead / Edith Nexbit
    • The Tyburn ghost / The Countess of Munster
    • The duchess at prayer / Edith Wharton
    • The vacant lot / Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
    • An unscientific story / Louis J. Strong
    • A dissatisfied soul / Annie Trumbull Slosson
    • The readjustment / May Austin.
    Genre: Horror fiction, Short stories
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] , Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781094109282

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    1094109282

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    9781094109299

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    1094109290

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DC Contributor

Davis, Graeme

Vance, Simon

Lister, Ralph

Lloyd, Helen

Wane, Esther

Arserio, Shiromi

Langton, James

Campbell, Tim

Froomkin, Joel Leslie

Naudus, Natalie

Barrett, Joe

Abstract

A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.

Genre
Horror fiction
Short stories
Publisher (Source)

[Ashland, Oregon]

Blackstone Publishing

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