Weird women : classic supernatural fiction by groundbreaking female writers, 1852-1923
Title:
Weird women : classic supernatural fiction by groundbreaking female writers, 1852-1923
Author:
Klinger, Leslie S., editor.
ISBN:
9781643134161
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
xiii, 361 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction / by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger -- The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- The moonstone mass / Harriet Prescott Spofford - Lost in a pyramid, or the mummy's curse / Louisa May Alcott -- What was the matter? / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps-- An itinerant house / Emma Frances Dawson -- Nut Bush Farm / Mrs. J. H. (Charlotte) Riddell -- The gray man / Sarah Orne Jewett -- In a far-off world / Olive Schreiner -- The giant wistaria / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The lady with the carnations / Marie Corelli -- The were-wolf / Clemence Housman -- Transmigration / Dora Sigerson Shorter -- The wind in the rose-bush / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The banshee's halloween / Herminie Templeton Kavanaugh -- In the closed room / Frances Hodgson Burnett --The dream-baby / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- The third drug / E. Bland (Edith Nesbit) -- The pocket-hunter's story / Mary Austin -- Twilight / Marjorie Bowen -- The swine-gods / Regina Miriam Bloch -- Jordan's end / Ellen Glasgow -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
"While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the success of her immortal Frankenstein undoubtedly inspired dozens of female authors who wrote their own evocative, chilling tales. Weird Women, edited by award-winning anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger, collects some of the finest tales of terror by authors as legendary as Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Charlotte Gilman-Perkins, alongside works of writers who were the bestsellersand critical favorites of their time--Marie Corelli, Ellen Glasgow, Charlotte Riddell--and lesser known authors who are deserving of contemporary recognition"-- Provided by publisher.
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