The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women (Mammoth Books)

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: Field of the Dead by Kim Lakin-Smith Collect Call by Sarah Pinborough Dead Flowers by a Roadside by Kelley Armstrong The Shadon in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Madam of Narrow Houses by Caitln R. Kiernan The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman The Ninth Witch by Sarah Langan Sister, Shhh by Elizabeth Massie The Fifth Bedroom by Alex Bell Scairt by Alison Littlewood Seeing Nancy by Nina Allen The Third Person by Lisa Tuttle Freeze Out by Nancy Holder Return by Yvonne Navarro Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley Another One in from the Cold by Marion Arnott My Moira by Lilith Saintcrow Forget Us Not by Nancy Kilpatrick Front Row Rider by Muriel Gray God Grant That She Lye (sic) Still by Cynthia Asquith The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell Among the Shoals Forever by Gail Z. Martin Afterward by Edith Wharton A Silver Music by Gaie Sebold An anthology of thrills and chills that features twenty-five spooky tales of the supernatural penned solely by female writers