The 19th Century Women Who Wrote

The 19th Century Women Who Wrote "Weird" Stories and Refused to Pigeonholed by Genre

A new anthology collects horror and supernatural stories from some of the era's best storytellers.

By Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton | September 8, 2021

Weird Women: The Forgotten Female Horror Writers of the 19th Century and Beyond

Weird Women: The Forgotten Female Horror Writers of the 19th Century and Beyond

Women were at the cutting edge of strange and supernatural writing long before Lovecraft came on the scene.

By Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton | August 4, 2020

The Birth of the Modern <br>Ghost Story

The Birth of the Modern
Ghost Story

On Spiritualism, Seances, and the Evolution of Ghostly Literature

By Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton | April 2, 2019

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