Mary Diana Dods to Beatrice Heron-Maxwell

Read by Richard Mitchley, Liza Ross, Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 12:20mins)

Featuring stories by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Amelia Edwards, Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Clotilde Graves & many more

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

01 - Her Dark Materials - Volume 2 - An Introduction

02 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

03 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

04 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson

05 - The Reaper by Dorothy Easton

06 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

07 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

08 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

09 - The Death Mask by H D Everett writing as Theo Parker

10 - The Death Hound by Violet Mary Firth writng as Dion Fortune

11 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster

12 - When Spirits Steal by Philippa Forest

13 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester

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

15 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

16 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

17 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

18 - The Return by Marjory E Lambe

19 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves

20 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin

21 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall

22 - The Dead Man of Varley Grange by Elizabeth Anna Hart

23 - Dog or Demon by Dorothy Havers

24 - The Devil Stone by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell