A haunted house / Virginia Woolf. An Egyptian cigarette / Kate Chopain -- The singer ; All Hallows Night / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freema -- The Witch ; The white woman ; The other side of a mirror / Mary Coleridge -- Dionea / Vernon Lee (Violet Page) -- The dryads / A. Mary F. Robison -- The white witch ; The Changeling / Olive Custance -- Man-size in marbel / E. Nesbit -- The love-talker ; Niamh / Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) -- The princess Baladina--her adventure / Willa Cather -- The watcher in the wood ; the white witch / Dora Sigerson Shorter -- Bewitched / Edith Wharton -- The farmer's bride ; The changeling / Charlotte Mew -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gillman -- Balled of the bird-bride ; The orchard of the moon / Rosamund Marriott Watson -- A White night / Charlotte Mew -- A drwned girl to her lover ; Hertha / Nora Hopper Chesson -- The hermit and the wild woman / Edith Wharton -- Nymphs ; The children of Lir / Katherine Tynan -- The princess and the hedge-pig / E. Nesbit -- A castle int he air ; The mermaid's chapel / May Kendall -- A ballad of victory / Dollie Radford -- When I was a witch / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Atavism ; The fairy goldsmith ; Madman's song / Elinor Wylie -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf.
Summary:
After a period of decline, Gothic literature underwent a revival at the end of the 1800s. As the century turned, women writers such as Vernon Lee, Mary Coleridge, and Graham R. Thomson left an indelible mark on fantasy and horror literature. Like Medusa herself, their poetry and short stories embody the very essence of magic and monstrosity. But be warned, dear reader: when you gaze upon the face of a monster . . . well, the ordinary world may never look quite the same again. Curated and annotated by award-winning fantasy author and Victorianist Theodora Goss, this collection of rare and strange gems serves as a tantalizing sampler of work by fin-de-si?cle women writers, whose legacy still echoes in the speculative fiction we know and love today.
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