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Author : Marie O'Regan
Release Date : 18 October 2012
Publisher : Robinson
Genre : Fiction
Pages : 160
ISBN 13 : 9781780330259

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Book excerpt: 25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women

Author : Marie O'Regan
Publisher : Robinson
Genre : Fiction
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25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern ...

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Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Uncategorized
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Genre : Fiction
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Genre : Fiction
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Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Genre : Fiction
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Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Genre : Fiction
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Publisher : University of Wales Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism....

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Author : Emma Liggins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Social Science
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Publisher : Springer
Genre : Performing Arts
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This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary ...

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Author : Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Genre : Social Science
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Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal ...

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Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Author : Melissa Edmundson Makala
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Nineteenth-century ghost literature by women shows the Gothic becoming more experimental and subversive as its writers abandoned the stereotypical Gothic heroines of the past in order to create more realistic, middle-class characters (both living and dead, male and female) who rage against the limits imposed on them by the natural ...