Dear Dead Women
Tartarus Press:
Leyburn: 2020
Trade paperback, New,
170 pp.
“These nine tales represent the sum total of American writer Edna Underwood's foray into the decadent and supernatural. Best known for her historical novels and her translations, Underwood was born in Maine in 1873. A gifted linguist, she read widely in European literature, and lost her first teaching job because of her propensity to read decadent, yellow-bound books.
Few are aware of Edna Underwood's solitary collection of short fiction, A Book of Dear Dead Women (1911), and even fewer of the excellent long horror story 'An Orchid of Asia', reprinted here for the first time since its appearance in Asia magazine in 1920.” #74333
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