Book Talk! Lisa Morton & Leslie Klinger's WEIRD WOMEN 2

133 North Larchmont Boulevard,Los Angeles CA 90004

29 September, 2021

Description

Leslie & Lisa discuss Weird Women 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers at Chevalier's Books. ABOUT THE BOOK Following the success of their acclaimed Weird Women, star anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers. This volume once again gathers some of the most famous voices of literature--George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton--along with chilling tales by writers who were among the bestselling and most critically-praised authors of the early supernatural story, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vernon Lee, Florence Marryat, and Margaret Oliphant. There are, of course, ghost stories here, but also tales of vampirism, mesmerism, witches, haunted India, demonic entities, and journeys into the afterlife. Introduced and annotated for modern readers, Morton and Klinger have curated more stories sure to provide another "feast of entertaining (and scary) reads" (Library Journal). Chevalier's Books is the oldest independent bookstore in Los Angeles, located in Larchmont Village.