Horror by Women: The mothers of the monstrous

From Mary Shelley, who invented science fiction and modern horror at once, to Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper — the women who wrote the genre’s deepest terrors.

In this collection

• Fuzzy Head
• After Death
• The Vintage
• Spalatro
• The Voices
• Mr. Sheets
• Martian Nightmare
• Orpheus
• Oh, if I Could but Shiver!
• Among the Rushes
• He?
• The Rock and the Sea
• The Town of Dae
• To Labor
• He
• A Descent into Egypt
• The Dark Other
• A Serenade
• The very Old Folk
• The Camp of the Dog
• Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance
• A Smiling Idol
• The Black Reaper
• Azrael
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