A sprawling cross section of ghost stories written by women across the last two centuries. This is an interesting editorial project, and would be useful for anyone tracing the through-lines of supernatural fiction over time. Because of the breadth, the quality tends to vary pretty widely--some of...
‘Tarnhelm’, set in Walpole’s beloved Lakeland, is taken from his collection All Souls’ Night (1933). 1 I was, I suppose, at that time a peculiar child, peculiar a little by nature, but also because I had spent so much of my young life in the company of people very much older than myself. After th...