A gripping collection of classic stories in which the central figures are highly dangerous female characters - ranging from the creepy and unsettling to the utterly terrifying.

• Miss Cornelius by W. F. Harvey

• Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson

• Miss Mary Pask by Edith Wharton

• Escape – Three and Sixpence by Winifred Holtby

• Skinflint by J. S. Fletcher

• The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number by Gertrude Atherton

• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

• Mrs. Raeburn’s Waxwork by Eleanor Smith

• Where their Fire is not Quenched by May Sinclair

• The Operation by Violet Hunt

• Pomegranite Seed by Edith Wharton

• Satan’s Circus by Eleanor Smith

• The Cold Embrace by Mary E. Braddon

• The Devil of the Marsh by H. B. Marriott-Watson

• The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce

• The Lovely Lady by D. H. Lawrence

• The Snow by Hugh Walpole