Women Do It Better? The Women of Weird Tales, from Valancourt Books
The Women of Weird Tales By Everil Worrell, Eli Colter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Greye La Spina Introduction by Melanie Anderson Valancourt Books (280 pages, $24.99 hardcover/$16.99 paperback/$9.99 digital, November 3, 2020) It is well known by now that women had a pivotal role in the development of those literary genres called Gothic Fiction, Horror, Dark Fantasy, etc. If we look at the iconic Weird Tales, the golden era of which spanned the ‘20s to the ‘50s, female authors were constantly…