by Victoria Glad | Mar 23, 2023 | Women In Horror, Classic Horror
Now that it’s all over, it seems like a bad dream. But when I look at Maria’s picture on my desk, I realize it couldn’t have been a dream. Actually, it was only six months ago that I sat at this same desk, looking at her picture, wondering what could...
by Amelia Edwards | Mar 20, 2023 | Classic Horror, Uncategorized, Women In Horror
The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them. They happened to myself, and my recollection of them is as vivid as if they had taken place only yesterday. Twenty years, however, have gone by since that night. During those twenty years I...
by Elizabeth Gaskell | Mar 19, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, Classic Horror
YOU know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask...
by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | Mar 16, 2023 | Women In Horror, Classic Horror
It was quite late in the evening, dark and rainy, when I arrived, and I suppose the first object in Ware, outside of my immediate personal surroundings, which arrested my attention was the Munson house. When I looked out of my window the next morning it loomed up...
by Bithia Mary Croker | Mar 15, 2023 | Women In Horror, Classic Horror
Some years ago, when I was a slim young spin, I came out to India to live with my brother Tom: he and I were members of a large and somewhat impecunious family, and I do not think my mother was sorry to have one of her four grown-up daughters thus taken off her hands....
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Mar 14, 2023 | Women In Horror, Classic Horror
He was an artist–such things as happened to him happen sometimes to artists. He was a German–such things as happened to him happen sometimes to Germans. He was young, handsome, studious, enthusiastic, metaphysical, reckless, unbelieving, heartless. And...
