25 Chilling Short Stories by Outstanding Female Writers Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pin borough and Lilith Saint crow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones and from heart rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying. CONTENTS Field of the Dead Kim Lakin-Smith Collect Call Sarah Pinborough Dead Flowers by a Roadside Kelley Armstrong The Shadow in the Corner Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Madam of the Narrow Houses Caitlín R. Kiernan The Lost Ghost Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman The Ninth Witch Sarah Langan Sister, Shhh . . . Elizabeth Massie The Fifth Bedroom Alex Bell Scairt Alison Littlewood Seeing Nancy Nina Allan The Third Person Lisa Tuttle Freeze Out Nancy Holder Return Yvonne Navarro Let Loose Mary Cholmondeley Another One in from the Cold Marion Arnott My Moira Lilith Saintcrow Forget Us Not Nancy Kilpatrick Front Row Rider Muriel Gray God Grant That She Lye Still Cynthia Asquith The Phantom Coach Amelia B. Edwards The Old Nurse’s Story Elizabeth Gaskell Among the Shoals Forever Gail Z. Martin Afterward Edith Wharton A Silver Music Gaie Sebold
