Book Review: Weird Sisters: Tales from the Queens of the Pulp Era edited by Mike Ashley
This post contains affiliate links, which means that we’ll earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links. “Most of all things terrifying to the human soul is the intangible. It is not that final terrifying apparition that freezes the blood in one’s veins. It is the slow turning of the knob of one’s chamber door in the eerily still hours before dawn, when one knows that he is alone in the house and that no other human being can possibly intrude upon his guarded solitude.” —Greye La Spina, “The Rat Master” đź“š Weird Sisters: Tales from the Queens of the Pulp Era edited by Mike Ashley is an outstanding anthology of 15 female-penned stories that appeared in the American pulp magazine Weird Tales, “the first English-language magazine to specialize in tales of the supernatural, bizarre, and fantastic” that ran for 279 issues from March 1923–September 1954. Fourteen are sourced from the original run, along with one from the publication’s ’90s revival. The editor’s introdu...
