WEIRD WOMEN VOLUME 2: 1840-1925

Weird Women 2

Publishers Weekly reviewed Weird Women 2and said, “Editors Morton and Klinger deliver another strong installment to their Weird Women anthology series…Weird fiction fans won’t want to miss this excellent survey of the genre’s female pioneers.”

And from BookList: “After the success of their first collection gathering early supernatural tales by women, Morton and
Klinger have gathered yet more eerie stories…Fans of the previous collection honoring women’s contributions to early horror will enjoy this additional anthology.”

  • Introduction by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger
  • The Drowned Fisherman (1840) by Mrs. S. C. Hall
  • The Lifted Veil (1859) by George Eliot
  • The Ghost in the Mill (1870) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • The Man with the Nose (1872) by Rhoda Broughton
  • Little White Souls (1883) by Florence Marryat
  • Let Loose (1890) by Mary Cholmondeley
  • The Fulness of Life (1893) by Edith Wharton
  • The Library Window (1896) by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Good Lady Ducayne (1896) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • Marsyas in Flanders (1900) by Vernon Lee
  • The Dead and the Countess (1902) by Gertrude Atherton
  • The Children (1909) by Josephine Daskam Bacon
  • The Tryst (1911) by Alice Brown
  • Broken Glass (1911) by Georgia Wood Pangborn
  • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched (1922) by May Sinclair
  • Spunk (1925) by Zora Neale Hurston