Published in 2023 (first published 2020)
278 pages
Melanie R. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS, where she teaches courses in American literature. She researches and writes about the American Gothic and supernatural literature. Her co-authored nonfiction on women and horror has won the Bram Stoker and Locus awards. When she is not writing or teaching, she is one of the hosts of The Know Fear Cast, a podcast about horror and all the things that scare us. She also co-hosts The Monster, She Wrote Podcast, a podcast about women creating in the darker genres.
What is this book about?
Launched in 1923, the pulp magazine Weird Tales quickly became one of the most important outlets for horror and fantasy fiction and is often associated with writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert Bloch, all of whose work appeared in its pages. But often overlooked is the fact that much of Weird Tales’ content was by women writers, some of whom numbered among the magazine’s most popular contributors. This volume includes thirteen fantastic tales originally published between 1925 and 1949, written by four of Weird Tales’ most prolific female contributors: Greye La Spina, Everil Worrell, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Eli Colter. Ranging from science fiction to fantasy to horror, these classic tales of mad scientists, deadly curses, ghosts, vampires, and the risen dead remain as thrilling and sensational as when first published.
