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The House of Silence [EPUB ebook] 
Ghost Stories, 1887-1920

Stories include: ‘John Charrington’s Wedding’, ‘The Ebony Frame’, ‘The Mass for the Dead’, ‘The White Lady’, ‘From the Dead’, ‘Hurst of Hurstcote’, ‘The Haunted Inheritance’, ‘The Power of Darkness’, ‘The House of Silence’, ‘No. 17’, ‘In the Dark’, ‘The Violet Car’, ‘The Haunted House’, ’The Pavilion’ and ‘The Detective’.

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, 2011), and author of Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2013) and Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire (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 edited Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers (2018). Her Handheld Press titles include Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 (2019),  Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 (2020), and Elinor Mordaunt’s The Villa and the Vortex (2021).