Lucy Hamilton Hooper to Elia W Peattie

Read by Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 12:22mins)

Featuring stories by Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Violet Hunt, Violet Jacob, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Arabella Kenealy & 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 3 - An Introduction

02 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper

03 - The Coach by Violet Hunt

04 - Behind the Wall by Violet Jacob

05 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson

06 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

07 - The Wonderful Tune by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

19 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy

09 - Little Brother by Mary E Mann

10 - The Dead Hand by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

11 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

12 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth

13 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt

14 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland

15 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit

16 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris

17 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

18 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

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

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

21 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie