Weird Women

Following the success ofWeird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed anthologists Lisa Morton andLeslie S. Klingerreturn with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers, includingGeorge Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton. Following the success of their acclaimedWeird Women,star anthologists Lisa Morton andLeslie S. Klinger return with another offeringof overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers. This volume once again gathers some of the most famous voices of literature-George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe,and Edith Wharton-along with chilling tales by writers who were among the bestselling and most critically-praised authors of the earlysupernatural story, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vernon Lee, Florence Marryat, and Margaret Oliphant. There are, of course, ghost stories here, but also tales of vampirism, mesmerism, witches, haunted India, demonic entities, and journeysinto the afterlife. Introduced and annotated for modern readers, Morton and Klinger have curated more stories sure to provide another "feastof entertaining (and scary) reads" (Library Journal).