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