At their hearts, ghost stories are often domestic tales, and so it's little surprise women make some of the finest narrators of these other worldly adventures. In Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades, Catherine Lundoff finds new voices in the rich tradition of ghost story telling: cautionary tales and stories where oppression is avenged by the grim ethereal, of lovers lost to life but who refuse to part.

Early ghost stories are filled with characters that can be read as coded lesbians-maiden aunts and spinsters lurking at the fringe of mortal life. But here are seventeen authors who have spun words that are fresh. These shades vary from the eerie to the romantic. These are phantoms that may well menace or linger long in the dreams of readers.

Paperback - 268 pages

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