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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 bestsellers and critical favorites of their time--Marie Corelli, Ellen Glasgow, Charlotte Riddell--and lesser known authors who are deserving of contemporary recognition.

As railroads, industry, cities, and technology flourished in the mid-nineteenth century, so did stories exploring the horrors they unleashed. This anthology includes ghost stories and tales of haunted houses, as well as mad scientists, werewolves, ancient curses, mummies, psychological terrors, demonic dimensions, and even weird westerns. Curated by Klinger and Morton with an aim to presenting work that has languished in the shadows, all of these exceptional supernatural stories are sure to surprise, delight, and frighten today's readers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Melissa Edmundson
• Notes - essay by Melissa Edmundson
• Further Reading - essay by Melissa Edmundson
• Bibliographical Notes - essay by Melissa Edmundson
• Bibliographical Details - short story by Melissa Edmundson
• The Weird of the Walfords - short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [as by Louisa Baldwin]
• Let Loose - (1890) - short story by Mary Cholmondeley
• The Giant Wistaria - (1891) - short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Shadow - (1905) - short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• Kerfol - (1916) - novelette by Edith Wharton
• Unseen - Unfeared - (1919) - short story by Francis Stevens
• Hodge - (1921) - short story by Elinor Mordaunt
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched - (1922) - short story by May Sinclair
• The Haunted Saucepan - (1987) - short story by Margery Lawrence
• The Twelve Apostles - (1929) - novelette by Eleanor Scott
• The Book - (1930) - short story by Margaret Irwin
• Couching at the Door - (1933) - novelette by D. K. Broster
• With and Without Buttons - (1938) - short story by Mary Butts
• Notes - essay by Kate Macdonald