First printing. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. 276

First printing. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. 276 pp. Hardcover. A rather scarce and highly sought after anthology of thirteen superbly crafted ghost stories, rarely if ever re-published, by some of America's finest women authors. Sexuality, love and marriage---the supernatural tale provided women writers with the means to offer bold and powerful treatments of these themes; in fact the supernatural often became a liberating force for these writers, enabling them to challenge and explore the frustrations and aspirations of women. Each of the entries is preceded by a biographical sketch of the author and commentary on the story. Among the pieces included here are: "The Bell In The Fog" by Gertrude Atherton (1905); Edith Wharton's "The Fullness of Life" (1893) and "Pomegranate Seed" (1931); "The Amber Gods" (1863) by Harriet Prescott Spofford; "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1872); Sarah Orne Jewett's " The Foreigner" (1900), "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; and others.