The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women
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 Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow.
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
Introduction by Marie O'Regan
1. A Silver Music (2012) by Gaie Sebold
2. Afterward (1910) novelette by Edith Wharton
3. Among the Shoals Forever (2012) by Gail Z. Martin
4. Another One in from the Cold (2012) by Marion Arnott
5. Collect Call (2012) by Sarah Pinborough
6. Dead Flowers by a Roadside (2012) by Kelley Armstrong
7. Field of the Dead (2012) by Kim Lakin-Smith
8. Forget Us Not (2012) by Nancy Kilpatrick
9. Freeze Out (2012) by Nancy Holder
10. Front Row Rider (2012) by Muriel Gray
11. God Grant That She Lye Still (1931) by Cynthia Asquith
12. Let Loose (1890) by Mary Cholmondeley
13. My Moira (2012) by Lilith Saintcrow
14. Return (2012) by Yvonne Navarro
15. Scairt (2010) by Alison Littlewood
16. Seeing Nancy (2012) by Nina Allan
17. Sister, Shhh... (2012) by Elizabeth Massie
18. The Fifth Bedroom (2012) by Alex Bell
19. The Lost Ghost (1974) by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
20. The Madam of the Narrow Houses (2007) by Caitlín R. Kiernan?
21. The Ninth Witch (2012) by Sarah Langan
22. The Old Nurse's Story (1935) novelette by Mrs. Gaskell
23. The Phantom Coach (1864) by Amelia B. Edwards
24. The Shadow in the Corner (1879) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
25. The Third Person by Lisa Tuttle
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Marie O'Regan
Marie O'Regan is an award-nominated writer and editor of horror and dark fantasy fiction, and her short fiction has been published in such places as The Alsiso Project, When Darkness Comes, Terror Tales 2, Terror Tales of London among others - her first collection, Mirror Mere, was published in 2006, and she is also the co-editor of Hellbound Hearts (Pocket Books), The Mammoth Book of Body Horror and Carnivale: Dark Tales From the Fairground (PS Publishing) along with her husband, Paul Kane, and the solo-edited anthology The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women. Marie and Paul's non-fiction interview book, Voices in the Dark, was published early in 2011. Excerpts of her fiction together with details of where it can be found are elsewhere on this site. Marie is also currently Co-Chair of the UK Chapter of the Horror Writers' Association.
The Mammoth Book of ...
The Mammoth Book of ... consists of 33 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
