I would like to express my gratitude to Kate Macdonald of Handheld Press, for commissioning me to curate the stories in this book.
I also wish to thank Jeff Makala for his feedback on the introduction and his editorial assistance.
And my gratitude, as always, goes to Murray, Maggie, Kitsey, and Remy for their furry support.
Melissa Edmundson
Melissa Edmundson is Lecturer in British Literature at Clemson University and specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British women writers, with a particular interest in women’s supernatural fiction. She is the editor of a critical edition of Alice Perrin’s East of Suez (1901), published by Victorian Secrets in 2011, and author of Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Wales Press, 2013) and Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850–1930: Haunted Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Her other work includes essays on the First World War ghost stories of H. D. Everett and haunted objects in the supernatural fiction of Margery Lawrence, as well as a chapter on women writers and ghost stories for The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. She has also edited Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers, published by Victorian Secrets in 2018. Her Handheld Press titles include Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890–1940 (2019) and Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891–1937 (2020).