by Marjorie Bowen | Mar 11, 2023 | Classic Horror, Women In Horror
THIS is a tale that might be told in many ways and from various points of view; it has to be gathered from here and there—a letter, a report, a diary, a casual reference; in its day the thing was more than a passing wonder, and it left a mark of abiding horror on the...
by Edith Nesbit | Mar 10, 2023 | Classic Horror, Women In Horror
I was awake—widely, cruelly awake. I had been awake all night; what sleep could there be for me when the woman I loved was to be married next morning—married, and not to me? I went to my room early; the family party in the drawing-room maddened me. Grouped about the...
by Christina Rosetti | Mar 9, 2023 | Poetry, Classic Poetry, Classic Horror, Women In Horror
Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: “Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpeck’d cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries,...
by Margaret Oliphant | Mar 7, 2023 | Fiction, Classic Horror, Women In Horror
Chapter I I WAS not aware at first of the many discussions which had gone on about that window. It was almost opposite one of the windows of the large old-fashioned drawing-room of the house in which I spent that summer, which was of so much importance in my life. Our...
by Sonia H. Greene | Mar 5, 2023 | Classic Horror, Women In Horror, Fiction
I have never heard an even approximately adequate explanation of the horror at Martin’s Beach. Despite the large number of witnesses, no two accounts agree; and the testimony taken by local authorities contains the most amazing discrepancies. Perhaps this haziness is...
by Charlotte Gilman | Mar 4, 2023 | Fiction, Classic Horror, Women In Horror
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I...
