Louisa Baldwin, a Victorian writer celebrated for her chilling supernatural fiction, crafted tales steeped in old English country houses, hereditary curses, and the thin veil between the living and the dead. Drawing on gothic traditions while bringing a distinctly feminine sensibility to the ghost story, her work explored grief, second sight, and the lingering presence of those who refuse to depart.
This collection gathers all of her weird tales-plus three mainstream stories (one with fantasy imagery), plus two long fairy tales, representing not only her complete supernatural oeuvre, but her complete short fiction for adults. Add a selection of verse on themes of folklore, fantasy, dreaming, the horror of war, and the changing seasons, and you have the most complete collection of her work ever published.