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More deadly than the male : masterpieces from the queens of horror / edited by Graeme Davis.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781643130118
ISBN: 1643130110
Physical Description: xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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 / Eliza 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 Nesbit -- 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.