Black Magic Women: 20 Novels of Witches and Witchcraft
Twenty Gothic Tales of Witch Trials, Curses, Demonic Enchantment, and Forbidden KnowledgeBy Francis Marion Crawford, John R. Musick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilhelm Meinhold, Marie Conway Oemler, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, John Buchan, William Harrison Ainsworth, Joanna E. Wood, Nathan Gallizier, Eliza Buckminster Lee, Mary Johnston, Zena A. Maher, S. R. Crockett, Stella Benson, Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert E. Howard
Length193h 47m
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Black Magic Women: 20 Novels of Witches and Witchcraft surveys the enduring literary figure of the witch across Gothic romance, historical fiction, supernatural adventure, moral allegory, and proto-weird fiction. Its selections range from ancestral curses and village suspicions to occult knowledge, spectral terror, and women whose perceived power unsettles religious, domestic, and political order. By bringing canonical Gothic atmospheres into conversation with popular romance and adventurous fantasy, the volume reveals witchcraft as both a source of sensation and a flexible language for social anxiety. The contributors span the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, linking Romantic and Victorian Gothic inheritances to imperial romance, regional fiction, American historical narrative, and the emerging weird tale. Authors associated with psychological ambiguity, antiquarian terror, social reform, and vigorous popular storytelling collectively demonstrate how accusations of sorcery could register fears concerning gender, class, race, sexuality, faith, and modernity. Women writers in particular complicate the stereotype of the witch, while the collection's transatlantic and European scope underscores the subject's cultural persistence. This anthology is recommended for students of Gothic literature, folklore, and gender studies, as well as general readers drawn to dark historical fiction. It offers an unusually broad opportunity to compare styles and eras within one volume, tracing productive dialogues between superstition, social critique, and imaginative terror.
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GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length193 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Witch of Prague
2CHAPTER I
3CHAPTER III
4CHAPTER V
5CHAPTER VII
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6CHAPTER IX
7CHAPTER XI
8CHAPTER XIII
9CHAPTER XV[*]
10CHAPTER XVII
11CHAPTER XIX
12CHAPTER XXI
13CHAPTER XXIII
14CHAPTER XXV
15CHAPTER XXVII
16The Witch of Salem
17Preface
18Chapter I. The Man With the Book
19Chapter II. Pennsylvania
20Chapter III. The Indented Slave
21Chapter IV. Mr. Parris and Flock
22Chapter V. A Night With Witches1
23Chapter VI. The Charter Oak
24Chapter VII. Two Men Who Look Alike
25Chapter VIII. Moving Onward
26Chapter IX. Charles and Cora
27Chapter X. Charles and Mr. Parris
28Chapter XI. Adelpha Leisler
29Chapter XII. Leisler's Fate
30Chapter XIII. Credulity Run Mad
31Chapter XIV. The Fate of Goody Nurse
32Chapter XV. "Your Mother a Witch"
33Chapter XVI. Escape and Flight
34Chapter XVII. Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire
35Chapter XVIII. Superstition Reigns
36Chapter XIX. The Woman in Black
37Chapter XX. Conclusion
38The House of the Seven Gables
39The House of the Seven Gables (Gothic Classic) - Illustrated Edition (pt. 1)
40The House of the Seven Gables (Gothic Classic) - Illustrated Edition (pt. 2)
41The House of the Seven Gables (Gothic Classic) - Illustrated Edition (pt. 3)
42The House of the Seven Gables (Gothic Classic) - Illustrated Edition (pt. 4)
43The House of the Seven Gables (Gothic Classic) - Illustrated Edition (pt. 5)
44Sidonia, the Sorceress
45Volume 1
46PREFACE
47BOOK I. (pt. 1)
48BOOK I. (pt. 2)
49BOOK I. (pt. 3)
50BOOK II. (pt. 1)
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