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Books for High Strangeness Girls
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items A list of books that highlight the haunted, weird realities that lie just beneath the surface...or are they?...
“Poems from the Edge of Possibility…” In this prismatic debut, August Smith charts a course through the weird contours of the UFO phenomenon: the lore, the stories, the theories, and the questions it raises about belief and reality. This hybridized collection asks: what can the paranorma...
VISITORS FROM THE RED STAR by August Smith
Short Stories from the edge of our known world, our secret spaces and lives. A glimpse into the quietude and strangeness that exists between conflicts both internal and external…
Incurable Graphomania
Master of the darkness that exudes from our fairytales and legends, This collection of short fiction reexamines our shared narrative heritage -- myths, fairytales, and favorite childhood stories -- unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at ...
A Child Again
Folk horror, esoteric gentry drama, ancient curses upon ancient lands--a necessary. collection for any of the girls who love a good Gothic novel.
British Library Tales of the Weird series
Edith Wharton was one of the preeminent, incesive novelists of the 20th century, and amongst her bibliography are some of THE best ghost stories around. Pomegranate Seed and Other Ghostly Tales, a collection of Wharton's very best haunting narratives, detail spectral handwriting, isolated houses in lonely landscapes, and a husband with a terrible secret…
Pomegranate Seed and Other Ghostly Tales - Edith Wharton
Perhaps this novel doesn't lie directly in the realm of strangeness, but I believe it can be said that the journey of girlhood is fraught with the paths of struggle and survival. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences o...
L'amour, La Fantasia by Assia Djebar
Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic--and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the...
The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology