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:Field of the Dead by Kim Lakin-SmithCollect Call by Sarah PinboroughDead Flowers by a Roadside by Kelley ArmstrongThe Shadon in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth BraddonThe Madam of Narrow Houses by Caitlín R. KiernanThe Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins-FreemanThe Ninth Witch by Sarah LanganSister, Shhh… by Elizabeth MassieThe Fifth Bedroom by Alex BellScairt by Alison LittlewoodSeeing Nancy by Nina AllenThe Third Person by Lisa TuttleFreeze Out by Nancy HolderReturn by Yvonne NavarroLet Loose by Mary CholmondeleyAnother One in from the Cold by Marion ArnottMy Moira by Lilith SaintcrowForget Us Not by Nancy KilpatrickFront Row Rider by Muriel GrayGod Grant That She Lye (sic) Still by Cynthia Asquith The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. EdwardsThe Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth GaskellAmong the Shoal’s Forever by Gail Z. MartinAfterward by Edith WhartonA Silver Music by Gaie Sebold