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The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women
| Author: | S. T. Joshi |
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Dover Publications, 2016 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
This original anthology presents 19 short stories that cover nearly a century of speculative fiction by women authors. Selections range from Mary Shelley's "Transformation" (1830), a pendant to Frankenstein in its themes and motifs, to "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched" (1922) by May Sinclair, a tale of time travel that follows its heroine to Hell and back.
Gripping narratives include Virginia Woolf's "A Haunted House," in which a ghostly couple revisit their former home; "A Wedding Chest" by Vernon Lee, a story of romance and revenge that unfolds in Renaissance Italy; and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," recounting a woman's psychic possession by the previous occupant of her attic bedroom. Additional tales include E. Nesbit's "From the Dead," "The Eyes" by Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell's "Curious If True," and many others. Editor S. T. Joshi offers an extensive Introduction as well as notes on each of the authors.
Contents:
- iii - Introduction (The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women) - essay by S. T. Joshi
- 1 - Transformation - (1976) - short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation 1830)
- 15 - Curious If True - short story by Mrs. Gaskell (variant of Curious, If True 1860)
- 29 - The Cold Embrace - (1860) - short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- 37 - An Engineer's Story - (1873) - short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of The Engineer 1866)
- 53 - The Secret Chamber - (1876) - novelette by Margaret Oliphant
- 79 - From the Dead - (1893) - short story by E. Nesbit
- 91 - Walnut-Tree House - (1882) - novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
- 113 - In Dark New England Days - (1890) - short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
- 129 - The Yellow Wall Paper - (1937) - short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
- 143 - Death and the Woman - (1892) - short story by Gertrude Atherton
- 149 - A Wedding Chest - (1904) - short story by Vernon Lee
- 159 - The Hall Bedroom - (1903) - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- 173 - The Eyes - (1910) - short story by Edith Wharton
- 189 - The Painter of Dead Women - (1910) - short story by Edna W. Underwood
- 199 - The Shadowy Third - (1916) - novelette by Ellen Glasgow
- 219 - Scoured Silk - (1919) - novelette by Marjorie Bowen (variant of Crimes of Old London -- The Scoured Silk 1918)
- 237 - The Death Mask - (1920) - short story by Mrs. H. D. Everett
- 247 - A Haunted House - (1921) - short story by Virginia Woolf
- 249 - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched - (1922) - novelette by May Sinclair
- 267 - Notes on the Authors - essay by S. T. Joshi
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