The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Women: The ten best horror stories written by female authors

The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Women: The ten best horror stories written by female authors

Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Women: The ten best horror stories written by female authors
Author: Mary Butts, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Amelia Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, May Sinclair, Margaret Oliphant & Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee
Release: 2023-11-11
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Mary Butts, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Amelia Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, May Sinclair, Margaret Oliphant & Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.
In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

In this volume stories from the Masters of Horror take centre stage. Within the words from the pens of Vernon Lee, Edith Wharton, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Butts and others lurk dark intentions of evil. As each story draws you in, so it is that uneasy, unsettling feelings begin to creep into our heads. It’s only a matter of time before things go decidedly from bad to much, much worse.

1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Women - An Introduction

2 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts

3 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit

4 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton

5 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

6 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

7 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards

8 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

9 - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair

10 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

11 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

12 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

13 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

More from Mary Butts, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Amelia Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, May Sinclair, Margaret Oliphant & Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

Aphra Behn, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, D. K. Broster, Mary Butts, Mary Cholmondeley, Mrs Craik, Ella D'Arcy, E. M. Delafield, Lettice Galbraith, Winifred Holtby, Violet Hunt, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary E. Mann, Amy Levy, Charlotte Mew, Hannah More, Ada Radford, May Sinclair, Netta Syrett, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells & Leonara Wodehouse
Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Barry Pain, Bret Harte, D. H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, Luigi Pirandello & Mary Butts
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Mary Butts, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, Emily Bronte, Holloway Horn, Mary Austin, Mrs Ernest Leverson, Frances E Huntley, Georgia F Stewart, Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham, Violet Quirk, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa Baldwin, Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton, Victoria Earle Matthews, Mary Russell Mitford, Lady Augusta Gregory, Lucretia Peabody Hale, Catherine Anne Dawson Scott, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Katharine Butler, Elsie Norris, Maude K Griffin, Annie McCary, Winifred Holtby, Mary Anne Hoare, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Olive Schreiner, Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton, Ruth D Todd, Elia W. Peattie, Catherine Wells, Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird, Charlotte Brontë, Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster & Gertrude Atherton
Virginia Woolf, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edith Wharton, Elinor Mordaunt, Louisa Baldwin, Marjorie Bowen, Barbara Baynton, Mary Cholmondeley, May Sinclair, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Butts, D. K. Broster & Margaret Oliphant
Alexander Kuprin, Ambrose Bierce, Anatole France, Daniel D, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Heinrich Heine, Herman Melville, Mary Butts, Vladimir Korolenko & Voltaire
Louisa May Alcott, Alice and Claude Askew, Mary Anne Atherstone, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Louisa Baldwin, Barbara Baynton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Stella Benson, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, D. K. Broster, Rhoda Broughton, Katharine Butler, Mary Butts, Fernan Caballeron, Willa Cather, Mary Cholmonderly, Mrs Craik, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine Crowe, Ella D'Arcy & Rebecca Harding Davies
Mary Butts, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Amelia Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, May Sinclair, Margaret Oliphant & Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee
Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Winifred Holtby, D. H. Lawrence, Barry Pain, Johann Hebel, Stacy Aumonier, Mary Butts, Mary Cholmondeley, O. Henry, Katherine Mansfield, Gertrude Atherton, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev & Vera Jelihovsky
Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Korolenko, Mary Cholmondeley.wav, Frederick Cowles, Anatole France, Alexander Kuprin, Leonid Andreyev, Alicia Ramsay, Mary Butts, Vernon Lee, W. F. Harvey, F. G. Loring, Honoré de Balzac & R. H. Malden
Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Virginia Woolf, Wilkie Collins, Alexander Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Olive Schreiner, Mary Butts, Washington Irving, Voltaire, Saki, Fyodor Dostovesky, H. P. Lovecraft, Lafcadio Hearn, Hume Nisbet, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle & H. G. Wells
Mary Butts, Elinor Mordaunt, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, M. P. Shiel, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Tuttiett, Louisa May Alcott, Nikolai Gogol, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edith Nesbit, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Mann, Sherwood Anderson, W. W. Jacobs & Knut Hamsun
WILLIAM E. BURTON, Mary Butts, Bernard Capes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Mary Cholmondeley, Frederick Cowles, Mrs Craik, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Bithia Mary Croker, Ella D'Arcy, Uriah Derick D'Arcy, Ulric Daubeny, Alphonse Daudet, E. M. Delafield, Maria Edgeworth, Dorothy Edwards, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Rudolph Fisher, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Lettice Galbraith & Zona Gale