25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers.
Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow.
From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there.
If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .
contents:
Field of the Dead by Kim Lakin-Smith
Collect Call by Sarah Pinborough
Dead Flowers by a Roadside by Kelley Armstrong
The Shadon in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Madam of Narrow Houses by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
The Ninth Witch by Sarah Langan
Sister, Shhh… by Elizabeth Massie
The Fifth Bedroom by Alex Bell
Scairt by Alison Littlewood
Seeing Nancy by Nina Allen
The Third Person by Lisa Tuttle
Freeze Out by Nancy Holder
Return by Yvonne Navarro
Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley
Another One in from the Cold by Marion Arnott
My Moira by Lilith Saintcrow
Forget Us Not by Nancy Kilpatrick
Front Row Rider by Muriel Gray
God Grant That She Lye (sic) Still by Cynthia Asquith
The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards
The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
Among the Shoal’s Forever by Gail Z. Martin
Afterward by Edith Wharton
A Silver Music by Gaie Sebold
