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