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Melissa Edmundson

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Melissa Edmundson is a literary historian who specializes in 19th and 20th-century British women writers, ghost stories, the supernatural, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction. She has a PhD in Victorian literature.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 683 ratings · 124 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Uninhabited House by Charlotte Riddell, Melissa Edmundson (Editor) 3.39 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1875 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hellebore #2: The Wild Gods Issue by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alan Moore (Goodreads Author), Katy Soar 4.38 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 by Melissa Edmundson (Editor), Louisa Baldwin (Contributor), Mary Cholmondeley (Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Half-Caste by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Melissa Edmundson (Editor) 3.05 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 by Melissa Edmundson (Editor), Helen de Guerry Simpson (Contributor), Edith Stewart Drewry (Contributor) 4.21 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers by Melissa Edmundson (Editor), Amelia B. Edwards (Contributor), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural: Essays on the Television Series 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted by Empire by Melissa Edmundson, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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4th Quarter 2022 - Horror #2

The Vessel by Adam Nevill - 162 pp

3 votes, 27.3%

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson - 304 pp

3 votes, 27.3%

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott - 448 pp

2 votes, 18.2%

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste - 320 pp

2 votes, 18.2%

Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 by Melissa Edmundson - 298 pp

1 vote, 9.1%

Bone China by Laura Purcell - 433 pgs

0 votes, 0.0%

Crota by Owl Goingback - 320 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

Daphne by Josh Malerman - 352 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

11 total votes

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