by Amelia Edwards | Mar 20, 2023 | Uncategorized, Women In Horror, Classic 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 | Classic Horror, Women In Horror, Fiction
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...
by Louisa May Alcott | Mar 13, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, Classic Horror
Louisa May Alcott is best known for her tale of Victorian life, Little Women. Still, she had a passion for horror and suspense, and wrote these tales of dark fiction under a plethora of pseudonyms to avoid tainting her reputation as a women’s fiction writer....
