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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: 4.04 · 715 ratings · 131 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Uninhabited House by Charlotte Riddell, Melissa Edmundson (Editor) 3.39 avg rating — 531 ratings — published 1875 — 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
	Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 by Melissa Edmundson (Editor), Louisa Baldwin (Contributor), Mary Cholmondeley (Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2019 — 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 Half-Caste by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Melissa Edmundson (Editor) 3.04 avg rating — 157 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) 4.23 avg rating — 60 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 Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924 by Elinor Mordaunt, Melissa Edmundson (Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2021 — 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 #1

Bone China by Laura Purcell - 433 pgs

8 votes, 53.3%

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott - 448 pp

5 votes, 33.3%

Crota by Owl Goingback - 320 pp

1 vote, 6.7%

Daphne by Josh Malerman - 352 pp

1 vote, 6.7%

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

0 votes, 0.0%

The Vessel by Adam Nevill - 162 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste - 320 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson - 304 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

15 total votes

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