Collecting the best of the author's strange tales including 'The White Shawl', which was unpublished during her lifetime this volume casts a light on an underappreciated contributor to weird fiction and the shadowy corners of a dark imagination.
Suddenly he began hastening hither and thither about the room. He moved the furniture with fierce jerks, turning ever to see the effect upon the shadow on the wall. Not a line of its terrible outlines wavered.
The disquieting tales of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman explore a world of contrast, where the supernatural erupts out of authentically drawn portraits of New England life. This is a world of witchcraft, secrecy, domestic spaces turned uncanny and ancestral vengeances inflicted upon the unfortunates of the present.
Collecting the best of the author's strange tales including 'The White Shawl', which was unpublished during her lifetime this volume casts a light on an underappreciated contributor to weird fiction and the shadowy corners of a dark imagination.
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (18521930) was a prolific New England writer, whose works included children's tales, historical novels and accounts of the supernatural. Her writing often espoused feminist beliefs and the rejection of traditional domestic roles for women. In 1926, she was awarded the first medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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