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Day 26 of #31days31womenwriters is Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952). Bowen wrote many supernatural tales and some of her best are found in THE LAST BOUQUET: SOME TWILIGHT TALES (1933) and THE BISHOP OF HELL AND OTHER STORIES (1949).

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Day 7 of #31days31womenwriters is Olivia Howard Dunbar (1873–1953). An active member of the women's suffrage movement, she wrote “The Shell of Sense” (1908) & “The Long Chamber” (1914), as well as criticism on the ghost story in her 1905 essay “The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction.”

For Day 5 of #31days31womenwriters we have Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1911-1995). She wrote 30 stories for WEIRD TALES, including "The Black Stone Statue," "Mommy," "Seventh Sister," "The Unwanted," and "The Three Marked Pennies," one of the magazine's most popular stories.

For #NationalWritingDay, here's a thread of women authors and the art of writing about ghosts.

Another birthday to celebrate--Elizabeth Bowen, born #otd in 1899! She wrote many excellent ghost stories. The modern ghost manifests “through series of happenings whose horror lies in their being just, just out of the true. Ghosts exploit the horror latent behind reality..."

Enjoy Rhoda Broughton’s ‘The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth’ from Tales for Christmas Eve. The tension steadily mounts with each letter between Mrs Montresor & Mrs De Wynt, right up until the final, chilling line. #ghostsoftheseason

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Happy birthday, Edith Nesbit! Her Grim Tales (1893) is one of the best collections of supernatural fiction ever published. Treat yourself to the @librivox recording of the stories!

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@furmanspeccoll It’s uncanny!

For my Gothic in the 20th/21st centuries literature course, I ask students to write their own ghost stories for the final project. I'm repeatedly amazed at how well they incorporate the themes we discuss throughout the course and how original their ideas are.

Happy Birthday, Rosemary Timperley! Novelist, short fiction writer, and anthologist who edited several vols in the Ghost Book series. Her ghost story 'Little Girl Lost' (1975) was later adapted as a BBC Radio Drama.

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