Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Women's Weird, we will be publishing a second anthology of classic Weird short fiction by women authors. Women's Weird 2 will contain thirteen remarkably chilling stories originally published from 1891 to 1937, by women authors from the USA, Canada, the UK, India and Australia. Featured stories will include:Lettice Galbraith's 'The Blue Room' (1897)Barbara Baynton's 'A Dreamer' (1902)Katherine Mansfield's 'The House' (1912)Bithia Mary Croker's 'The Red Bungalow' (1919)Marjorie Bowen's 'Florence Flannery' (1924)L M Montgomery's 'The House Party at Smoky Island' (1934)Stella Gibbons' 'The Roaring Tower' (1937)Melissa Edmundson's introduction will explore how the evolving Weird tradition was interpreted using colonial settings, and focus on how Weird fitted naturally into the careers of writers like Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) and Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm) who were not normally considered exponents of supernatural fiction.

A ground-breaking collection of the best Weird short stories by women from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Following the success of Weird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers, including George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton. Following the success of their acclaimed Weird Women, star anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers. This volume once again gathers some of the most famous voices of literature—George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton—along with chilling tales by writers who were among the bestselling and most critically-praised authors of the early supernatural story, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vernon Lee, Florence Marryat, and Margaret Oliphant. There are, of course, ghost stories here, but also tales of vampirism, mesmerism, witches, haunted India, demonic entities, and journeys into the afterlife. Introduced and annotated for modern readers, Morton and Klinger have curated more stories sure to provide another "feast of entertaining (and scary) reads" (Library Journal).

Poe and Women presents essays by scholars who investigate the various ways in which women--Poe's female contemporaries, critics, writers, and artists, as well as women characters in Poe adaptations--have shaped Edgar Allan Poe's reputation and revised his depictions of gender.

Sheila and her friends face a problem when an ancient, evil spirit appears at the Mighty Oaks naturist resort. Her spirit guide Acaraho and Sheila have to do something, but what? Luckily she doesn't have to fight this battle alone. Also in her private life Sheila faces difficult decisions. Surprises are lined up for her and Jeremy, and also for many other people that get involved in the hunt for the Evil Spirit. This is book 2 in the "Naked Crow" series.