Description:Fourteen tales of horror written by women such as Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, Ruth Rendell, Shirley Jackson, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman present the terrifying world of the supernatural from a female perspective
1 • Introduction (Haunting Women) • (1988) • essay by Alan Ryan
5 • The Renegade • non-genre • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
19 • The Villa Désirée • (1921) • short story by May Sinclair
32 • The House of the Famous Poet • (1966) • short story by Muriel Spark
43 • Loopy • non-genre • (1983) • short story by Ruth Rendell
56 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
75 • The Foghorn • (1933) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
86 • The Ghost • (unknown) • short story by Mrs. Henry Wood
98 • Simon's Wife • (1984) • short story by Tanith Lee
117 • Hell on Both Sides of the Gate • (1979) • short story by Rosemary Timperley
132 • The Shadowy Third • (1916) • novelette by Ellen Glasgow
158 • The Sound of the River • (1966) • short story by Jean Rhys
183 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
195 • The Cloak • (1957) • short story by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]