The Villa and The Vortex
Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird and Women’s Weird 2, has curated this selection of the best of Elinor Mordaunt’s supernatural short fiction.
Edmundson's stories blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession, conjuration from the dead and witchcraft. Each story is an original and compelling contribution to supernatural fiction, making this selection a marvelous new showcase for women’s writing in the genres.
The Villa and The Vortex includes the following short stories:
The Weakening Point
The Country-side
The Vortex
Hodge
The Fountain
Luz
The Landlady
Four Wallpapers
The Villa
Melissa Edmundson
Melissa Edmundson is a literary historian, interested in 19th and 20th-century British women writers, ghost stories, the supernatural, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction (not always in that order!).
Handheld Weirds
Handheld Weirds consists of ten books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
