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  title info:
    title: More deadly than the male
    sub title: masterpieces from the queens of horror
  name:
    name part: Davis, Graeme
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  genre: Horror tales, English.
  genre: Horror tales, American.
  genre: Short stories, English.
  genre: Short stories, American.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, but few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies weren't alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell, whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle, Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life, while Helene Blavatsky, best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society, conjures up a solid and satisfying ghost story in The Cave of the Echoes. Edith Wharton's great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize, yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre, which was often subtler, more psychological and more disturbing.
  table of contents: Introduction / Graeme Davis -- The transformation / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- The dark lady / Mrs. S.C. Hall -- Morton Hall / Elizabeth Gaskell -- A ghost story / Ada Trevanion -- An engineer's story / Amelia B. Edwards -- Lost in a pyramid, or the mummy's curse / Louisa May Alcott -- Tom Toothacre's ghost story / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Kentucky's ghost / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- At Chrighton Abbey / Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- The fate of Madam Cabanel / Liza Lynn Linton -- Forewarned, forearmed / Mrs. J.H. Riddell -- The portrait / Margaret Oliphant -- The shrine of death / Lady Dilke -- The Beckside boggle / Alice Rea -- The hidden door / Vernon Lee -- Unexplained / Mary Louisa Molesworth -- Let loose / Mary Cholmondely -- The cave of the echoes / Helena Blavatsky -- The yellow wall paper / Charlott Perkins Gilman -- The mass for the dead / Edith Nexbit -- The Tyburn ghost / The Countess of Munster -- The duchess at prayer / Edith Wharton -- The vacant lot / Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman -- An unscientific story / Louis J. Strong -- A dissatisfied soul / Annie Trumbull Slosson -- The readjustment / May Austin.
  target audience: adult
  note: edited by Graeme Davis.
  subject:
    topic: Horror tales, English
  subject:
    topic: Horror tales, American
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    topic: Women authors
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    topic: Women authors
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, English
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  classification: PN6071.H727 M65 2019
  classification: 808.83/8738
  identifier: 9781643130118
  identifier: 1643130110
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180628
    record change date: 20190718162209.0
    record identifier: in00004057165