The five stories in this edition explore themes of fear, guilt, remorse, oppression, and isolation, written by female authors who lived during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, a period marked by a surge of interest in the supernatural. Stories include that of a distraught nanny trying to protect a young girl in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a haunted mansion. Another tells of a young artist who breaks off his engagement to his cousin, who then commits suicide in despair, only to be haunted by her spirit. Yet another tale recounts the story of a man lost on a moor during a storm who boards a stagecoach with strange travelers. In another, a boy tells his father he hears voices belonging to a tormented soul pleading to be let into the ruins of what must have been its home. In the final story, a woman confined to a room by her husband becomes obsessed with the design of the wallpaper....read more
