More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror By : Graeme Davis
Book Excerpt :
Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote?Frankenstein: 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
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