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First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
| Description |
xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm |
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| 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. |
| 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.-- Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Horror tales, English.
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Horror tales, American.
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English fiction -- Women authors.
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American fiction -- Women authors.
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Short stories, English.
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Short stories, American.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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Horror fiction.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Graeme, editor.
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Transformation.
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Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.
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Trevanion, Ada.
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Edwards, Amelia B., 1831-1892.
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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915.
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Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn), 1822-1898.
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| ISBN |
9781643130118 (hardcover) : $26.95 |
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1643130110 (hardcover) |
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