Following the success of Weird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed
anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another
offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers,
including George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and
Edith Wharton.
Following the success of their acclaimed Weird Women, star
anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another
offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers.
This volume once again gathers some of the most famous voices of
literature--George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and
Edith Wharton--along with chilling tales by writers who were among the
bestselling and most critically-praised authors of the early
supernatural story, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vernon Lee,
Florence Marryat, and Margaret Oliphant.
There are, of course, ghost stories here, but also tales of vampirism,
mesmerism, witches, haunted India, demonic entities, and journeys into
the afterlife. Introduced and annotated for modern readers, Morton and
Klinger have curated more stories sure to provide another "feast of
entertaining (and scary) reads" (Library Journal).