Description: Morton and Klinger refute the popular misconception that the early horror genre had few femalewriters--in reality, as they show, women writers were forerunners of the genre, often supportingtheir families through their work and gaining fame, only to be allowed to drift into obscurity andout of print. The two editors bring these authors back into the spotlight here...These tales were written by women with streaks ofindependence--some of them writing under pen names, some of them queer--and theirrebellion shines through the subtext...Feminist and horror-genre readers will jump on this compelling and spooky collection, as LouisaMay Alcott writes of seeds found in a mummy's chamber and as gorgeous women werewolvesand mad scientists haunt these pages.

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