A gripping collection of classic stories in which the central figures are highly dangerous female characters - ranging from the creepy and unsettling to the utterly terrifying.

• Miss Cornelius by W. F. Harvey
• Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson
• Miss Mary Pask by Edith Wharton
• Escape - Three and Sixpence by Winifred Holtby
• Skinflint by J. S. Fletcher
• The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number by Gertrude Atherton
• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork by Eleanor Smith
• Where their Fire is not Quenched by May Sinclair
• The Operation by Violet Hunt
• Pomegranite Seed by Edith Wharton
• Satan's Circus by Eleanor Smith
• The Cold Embrace by Mary E. Braddon
• The Devil of the Marsh by H. B. Marriott-Watson
• The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce
• The Lovely Lady by D. H. Lawrence
• The Snow by Hugh Walpole