Heroines Lucinda Lisle of “Thwaite’s Tenant” by Imogen Hermes Gowar and Catherine Blake of “Confinement” by Kiran Millwood Hargrave face life-threatening misogyny: Lucinda’s father demands she return to her abusive rapist husband, and Catherine struggles alone during her haunted postpartum recovery. , which finds aspiring paleontologist Victor Crisp haunted by his choice to sacrifice a child in his careless quest for fame. Several tales feature cruel men, including Collins’s “A Study in Black and White,” in which a mean-spirited chess enthusiast rents a menacing chess-themed house, and “Monster” by Elizabeth Macneal Harsh winter weather and vague Victoriana bind these eight terrifying new horror shorts showcasing human depravity and grisly murder.
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