{"product_id":"more-deadly-than-the-male-masterpieces-from-the-queens-of-horror-9781643130118","title":"More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003eA darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors  presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Toms Cabin  Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared  Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies werent alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction  women were exploring the frontiers of fear  dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe  and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell  whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle  Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life  while Helene Blavatsky  best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society  conjures up a solid and satisfying ghost story in The Cave of the Echoes. Edith Whartons great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize  yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers  the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field  the way they overcame those challenges  and the way they approached the genrewhich was often subtler  more psychological  and more disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45272540119093,"sku":"ByrdShop_1643130110","price":97.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781643130118.jpg?v=1780481200","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/more-deadly-than-the-male-masterpieces-from-the-queens-of-horror-9781643130118","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}