Weird Sisters: Tales from the Queens of the Pulp Era
It is natural, especially at her age, that she should crave, need meat. When I am a little better I will go out and set traps, as I used to doas a boy... We must give her meat; she has done a great deal for us.
Springing forth from the heyday of Weird Tales magazine and its contemporaries comes a new anthology of fifteen uncanny tales—classics and rarities penned by the women writers whose weird imaginings defined the pulp era.
Featuring an introduction and biographical notes by veteran editor Mike Ashley, this collection offers ghostly thrills, shapeshifting horrors and monstrous coming-of-age narratives from Weird Tales stalwarts such as Mary Elizabeth Counsel man alongside more surprising authors such as Lucy M. Montgomery. This new selection also includes a 1990s classic by Tanith Lee, the queen of Weird Tales magazine’s revival era, and a recently rediscovered gem of mythical horror by Evangeline Walton.
Contents
Introduction (Weird Sisters: Tales from the Queens of the Pulp Era) essay by Mike Ashley
1. Mirror, Mirror (1994) short story by Tanith Lee
2. Brenda (1954) short story by Margaret St. Clair
3. Mommy (1939) short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
4. More Than Shadow (1954) short story by Dorothy Quick
5. The Withered Heart (1939) short story by G. G. Pendarves
6. Forbidden Cupboard (1940) short story by Frances Garfield
7. The Rat Master (1942) short story by Greye La Spina
8. The Underbody (1949) novelette by Allison V. Harding
9. Leonora (1927) short story by Everil Worrell
10. The Ode to Pegasus (1926) short story by Maria Moravsky
11. Foxy's Hollow (1953) short story by Leah Bodine Drake
12. They That Have Wings (2011) novelette by Evangeline Walton
13. The Crying Child (1953) short story by Stella Gibbons
14. DaemonTitle (1946) novelette by C. L. Moore
15. The House Party at Smoky Island (1935) short story by L. M. Montgomery
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Mike Ashley
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 100 books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand (British Library, 2016), Out of This World, a brief illustrated history of science fiction (British Library, 2011), and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950 (British Library, 2005). Most recently he is the author of a multi-volume history of science fiction magazines, published by Liverpool University Press.
British Library Tales of the Weird
The British Library Tales of the Weird series revives and unearths classic strange fiction from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the form of novels, single-author collections and thematic anthologies, complete with new introductions and fascinating notes by expert editors.
British Library Tales of the Weird consists of sixty-four books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of four more books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
