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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
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2020
    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:
    Short stories, Horror fiction
    Sujets: American fiction | English Fiction | FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors) | FICTION / Horror | Horror tales, American | Horror tales, English | Short stories, American | Short stories, English | Women authors
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781094109282, 1094109282, 9781094109299, 1094109290