Do you know the works of Gertrude Atherton? Not a familiar name, is it. What about Joyce Carol Oates? Now that one you know. Both of these authors' short stories are featured at Tales of Terror for my Women In Horror Month.
Let's start with Atherton's story about death ...
and go on to Oates' Where are you going? Where have you been?
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