The Women of Horror: 30 Timeless Horror Classics by Female Authors
Gothic Romances, Ghost Stories, and Uncanny Tales from Pioneering Women WritersBy Mary Shelley, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Francis Marion Crawford, Marie Corelli, Carolyn Wells, S. Baring-Gould, Emily Brontë, Mrs. Loudon, Baroness Orczy, Marie Conway Oemler, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, Jane Austen, Clara Reeve, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Duchess, Louisa May Alcott, George Sand, Mrs. Oliphant, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Amelia B. Edwards, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Jane Chandler Webster, E. Nesbit
Length256h 37m
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The Women of Horror gathers thirty enduring tales that map women's long, inventive engagement with the Gothic, supernatural, and psychologically uncanny. Across ghost stories, haunted houses, ancestral secrets, cursed objects, spectral doubles, and domestic terrors, the volume ranges from Romantic and Victorian Gothic to fin-de-siècle sensation, regional realism, and early twentieth-century psychological horror. Its standout episodes of imprisonment, revenance, and unsettling inheritance reveal horror as both a popular mode and a searching literary language for fear, desire, social constraint, and the unknown. The contributors constitute a remarkable transatlantic and European constellation of novelists, poets, journalists, and popular storytellers. Their work intersects with the Gothic revival, Victorian spiritualism, New Woman writing, domestic fiction, sensation literature, and modern psychological narrative. Established canonical figures appear alongside writers too often marginalized in histories of horror, while the collection's international breadth demonstrates that women's supernatural fiction developed through diverse cultural anxieties and publishing traditions. Together, these voices reshape the genre's genealogy, showing women not merely as Gothic heroines but as its formidable architects. Ideal for students, scholars, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles, periods, and conceptions of terror within one volume. Readers will find both literary pleasure and historical insight in the conversations these stories create: between the domestic and the cosmic, the rational and the occult, and inherited convention and formal experiment.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length256 hrs 37 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Frankenstein
26Chapter III
2PREFACE
27Chapter IV
3VOLUME ONE (pt. 1)
28Chapter V
4VOLUME ONE (pt. 2)
29Chapter VI
5VOLUME TWO
30Chapter VII
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6VOLUME THREE (pt. 1)
31Chapter VIII
7VOLUME THREE (pt. 2)
32Chapter IX
8The Mysteries of Udolpho
33Chapter X
9Volume I
34Chapter XI
10Chapter I
35Chapter XII
11Chapter II
36Volume III
12Chapter III
37Chapter I
13Chapter IV
38Chapter II
14Chapter V
39Chapter III
15Chapter VI
40Chapter IV
16Chapter VII
41Chapter V
17Chapter VIII
42Chapter VI
18Chapter IX
43Chapter VII
19Chapter X
44Chapter VIII
20Chapter XI
45Chapter IX
21Chapter XII
46Chapter X
22Chapter XIII
47Chapter XI
23Volume II
48Chapter XII
24Chapter I
49Chapter XIII
25Chapter II
50Volume IV
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