Dave J.’s Reviews > Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 > Status Update

So, only three stories out of thirteen were okay-ish weird fiction, which is a bummer. And out of the other ten ghost stories, I only liked the three written by Edith Wharton, E. Nesbit, and C.P. Gilman. The rest were more or less shoddy or predictable. I ended up not being able to finish five of the stories here.

Well, six stories in and the weird fiction finally appears. I take back what I said in my previous update--now it's clear that this collection is a mix of genres. The two weird fiction stories that I've read seem to be nods to both Lovecraft and Hodgson, but they're unfortunately underwhelming stories. Too much telling, not enough showing.

Misleading title--so far, at least. It should instead be "Women's Supernatural Horror" or "Women's Ghost Stories." As for the stories themselves, the first two are rough and didn't draw me in, but the following three are excellent (there are thirteen stories in total here). If the quality stays the same then I'll definitely enjoy the rest of this book.