Women's Weird 2 - More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Roland Topor In the vein of the

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Women's Weird 2 - More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Roland Topor In the vein of theWomen's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891 1937 ISBN 9781912766444 paperback from Handheld Classics *** For fans of the best selling Womens Weird anthology comes the next installment of stories by female writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic. Edited by literary historian Melissa Edmundson, Womens Weird 2 features thirteen classic Weird short stories that showcase how