Weird sisters

Veteran anthology editor Mike Ashley returns with a collection of rare stories by women writers from the heyday of ‘Weird Tales’ and its chilling pulp contemporaries. Featuring a riot of monsters, murderesses and madness from a mixture of lesser-known writers and some surprises such as Lucy M. Montgomery, author of ‘Anne of Green Gables’, this new selection also includes a 1980s story by Tanith Lee, one of the great proponents of ‘Weird Tales’ magazine’s revival era, and a recently discovered tale by the fantasy writer Evangeline Walton.