Women's Weird 2 : More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 – ed. Melissa Edmundson

The successor to Women’s Weird from 2019, Women’s Weird 2 contains thirteen remarkably chilling stories originally published from 1891 to 1937, by women authors from the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, India and Australia. Read thoroughly frightening fiction by the most unexpected of Weird authors: Stella Gibbons, L M Montgomery and Katherine Mansfield.

These classic Weird short stories include:

• Edith Stewart Drewry, ‘A Twin-Identity’ (1891)
• Lettice Galbraith, ‘The Blue Room’ (1897)
• Sarah Orne Jewett, ‘The Green Bowl’ (1901)
• Barbara Baynton, ‘A Dreamer’ (1902)
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, ‘The Hall Bedroom’ (1905)
• Katherine Mansfield, ‘The House’ (1912)
• Bithia Mary Croker, ‘The Red Bungalow’ (1919)
• Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, ‘Outside the House’ (1920)
• Marjorie Bowen, ‘Florence Flannery’ (1924)
• Helen Simpson, ‘Young Magic’ (1925)
• Lucy Maud Montgomery, ‘The House Party at Smoky Island’ (1935)
• Mary Elizabeth Counselman, ‘The Black Stone Statue’ (1937)
• Stella Gibbons, ‘The Roaring Tower’ (1937)

Melissa Edmundson’s introduction explores how the evolving Weird tradition was interpreted using colonial settings, and goes on to describe how writing Weird fitted naturally into the careers of writers like L M Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) and Stella Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm) who were not normally considered exponents of supernatural fiction.