Medusa's Daughters

Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning author of the short story and poetry collections In the Forest of Forgetting (2006), Songs for Ophelia (2014), and Snow White Learns Witchcraft (2019), as well as novella The Thorn and the Blossom (2012), debut novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017), and sequels European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (2018) and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (2019). She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Visit her at theodoragoss.com.

“Evocative of the legend of Medusa, the mirrors perfectly capture the mood of this collection as women writers tell of their evils, desires, and dreams through the lenses of fantasy and horror.” —Booklist  "Goss has gathered a collection of strengths: gothic tales of women, by women, some of which had been lost to time and forgetting... creating a gothic landscape that is at once timeless and timely, filled with brilliant, angry, determined women who leap right off the page." —Fran Wilde, Nebula-winning author of Updraft   "Medusa’s Daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siècle patriarchy and the bold, monstrous women who defied them." —Barbara Barrow, author of An Unclean Place and The Quelling

• Kate Chopin (1850-1904) "An Egyptian Cigarette"Lizette Woodworth Reese "The Singer," "All Hallows Night"Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) "Luella Miller"Mary Coleridge "The Witch," "The White Women"May Kendall "The Mermaid's Chapel"Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) (1856-1935) "Dionea"A. Mary F. Robinson "The Dryads"Olive Custance "The White Witch," "The Changeling"E. Nesbit (1858–1924) "Man-Size in Marble"Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) "The Love-Talker," "Niamh"Willa Cather "Princess Baldina,"Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Watcher in the Wood," "The White Witch"Elinor Wylie "Atavism"Edith Wharton (1862-1937) "Bewitched"Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) "The Farmer's Bride," "The Changeling"Mary Coleridge "The Other Side of a Mirror"Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) "The Yellow Wallpaper"Rosamund Mariott Watson "Ballad of the Bird-Bride," "The Orchard of the Moon"Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) "A White Night"Nora Hopper Chesson "A Dead Girl to Her Lover," "Hertha"Edith Wharton (1862-1937) "The Hermit and the Wild Woman"Katherine Tynan "Nymphs," "The Children of Lir"E. Nesbit (1858–1924) "The Princess and the Hedge-Pig"Dollie Radford "A Ballad of Victory"Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith," "Madman's Song"Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) "A Haunted House"