The Villa and The Vortex
Subtitle: Supernatural Stories, 1914-1924
Publisher: Handheld Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Bath, England
ISBN-13: 9781912766420
Description: Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird and Women’s Weird 2, has curated this selection of the best of Elinor Mordaunt’s supernatural short fiction. The stories blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession, conjuration from the dead and witchcraft. Each story is an original and compelling contribution to supernatural fiction, making this selection a marvellous new showcase for women’s writing in the genre.