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Authors: Marie O'Regan
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women (Mammoth Books)
Marie O’Regan
is a British Fantasy Award-nominated horror and dark fantasy writer and editor. She has served as the Chair of the British Fantasy Society, and has at times edited both their publications,
Dark Horizons
and
Prism
. In September 2009, Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books imprint published her anthology (co-edited with Paul Kane)
Hellbound Hearts
, a collection of short stories based on the original novella
The Hellbound Heart
by Clive Barker that inspired the movie
Hellraiser
. Marie lives in Derbyshire, England.
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The Mammoth Book of
by Women
Edited by
MARIE O’REGAN
Constable & Robinson Ltd
55–56 Russell Square
London WC1B 4HP
First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012
Copyright © Marie O’Regan, 2012 (unless otherwise stated)
The right of Marie O’Regan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
is available from the British Library
UK ISBN: 978-1-78033-024-2 (paperback)
UK ISBN: 978-1-78033-025-9 (ebook)
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First published in the United States in 2012 by Running Press Book Publishers,
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US Library of Congress Control Number: 2011939124
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For Jen, who loves the spooky stuff
Field of the Dead
Kim Lakin-Smith
Dead Flowers by a Roadside
Kelley Armstrong
The Shadow in the Corner
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Madam of the Narrow Houses
Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Lost Ghost
Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
Sister, Shhh . . .
Elizabeth Massie
Another One in from the Cold
Marion Arnott
God Grant That She Lye Still
Cynthia Asquith
The Phantom Coach
Amelia B. Edwards
The Old Nurse’s Story
Elizabeth Gaskell
Among the Shoals Forever
Gail Z. Martin
Special thanks to Roland, Vivien and Portia Asquith; also Mike Ashley, Paul Kane, Stephen Jones and Duncan Proudfoot, for all their help and support.
Introduction copyright © Marie O’Regan 2012.
“Field Of The Dead” by Kim Lakin-Smith, copyright © 2012
“Collect Call” by Sarah Pinborough, copyright © 2012
“Dead Flowers by a Roadside” by Kelley Armstrong, copyright © 2012
“The Shadow in the Corner” by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, originally published in
All the Year Round
, 1879.
“The Madam of the Narrow Houses” by Caitlín R. Kiernan, originally published in
The Ammonite Violin & Others
(Subterranean Press, 2010). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Lost Ghost” by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, originally published in
The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural
(Doubleday, 1903).
“The Ninth Witch” by Sarah Langan, copyright © 2012
“Sister, Shhh . . .” by Elizabeth Massie, copyright © 2012
“The Fifth Bedroom” by Alex Bell, copyright © 2012
“Scairt” by Alison Littlewood, originally published in
Not One Of Us
#43 (Not One of Us, 2010). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Seeing Nancy” by Nina Allan, copyright © 2012
“The Third Person” by Lisa Tuttle, copyright © 2012
“Freeze Out” by Nancy Holder, copyright © 2012
“Return” by Yvonne Navarro, copyright © 2012
“Let Loose” by Mary Cholmondeley, originally published in
Moth and Rust
(John Murray, 1902).
“Another One in from the Cold” by Marion Arnott, copyright © 2012
“My Moira” by Lilith Saintcrow, copyright © 2012
“Forget Us Not” by Nancy Kilpatrick, copyright © 2012
“Front Row Rider” by Muriel Gray, copyright © 2012
“God Grant That She Lye Still” by Cynthia Asquith. Originally published in
When Churchyards Yawn
(Hutchinson and Co., 1931). Reproduced by permission of Roland Asquith.