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Synopsis

This collection of 24 entertaining and haunting 19th-and 20th-century tales from the U.S., Britain, and Latin America reclaims a literary tradition that has long been overlooked. Using such techniques as magic realism, allegory, and surrealism, the authors re-imagine the cliches of supernatural fiction, focusing on female characters and treating traditional themes in inventive and provocative ways. Among the authors included are Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Luisa Valenzuela, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Burford, and Joanna Russ.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1989) - essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Introduction - (1989) - essay by Rosemary Jackson
• Proem: The Immortal - (1908) - poem by Ellen Glasgow
• The Long Chamber - (1914) - shortstory by Olivia Howard Dunbar
• A Ghost Story - (1858) - shortstory by Ada Trevanion
• Luella Miller - (1902) - shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• What Did Miss Darrington See? - (1870) - shortstory by Emma B. Cobb
• La Femme Noir - (1850) - shortstory by Mrs. S. C. Hall
• A Friend in Need - (1981) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• Attachment - (1974) - shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
• Dreaming the Sky Down - (1987) - shortstory by Barbara Burford
• The Sixth Canvasser - (1916) - shortstory by Inez Haynes Gillmore
• An Unborn Visitant - (1932) - shortstory by Vita Sackville-West
• Tamar - (1932) - shortstory by Lady Eleanor Smith
• There and Here - (1897) - shortstory by Alice Brown
• The Substitute - (1914) - shortstory by Georgia Wood Pangborn
• The Teacher - (1976) - shortstory by Luisa Valenzuela
• The Ghost - (1978) - shortstory by Anne Sexton
• Three Dreams in a Desert - (1890) - shortstory by Olive Schreiner
• The Fall - (1967) - shortstory by Armonia Somers (trans. of El derrumbamiento 1953)
• Pandora Pandaemonia - (1989) - shortfiction by Jules Faye
• The Doll - (1896) - shortstory by Vernon Lee
• The Debutante - (1939) - shortfiction by Leonora Carrington
• The Readjustment - (1908) - shortstory by Mary Hunter Austin
• Clay-Shuttered Doors - (1926) - shortstory by Helen R. Hull
• Since I Died - (1873) - shortstory by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• The Little Dirty Girl - (1982) - novelette by Joanna Russ
• Envoi: For Emily D. - (1989) - poem by uncredited
• Recommended Reading - (1989) - essay by uncredited

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