Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Wiches' Brew (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
The Macmillan Midnight Library presents Witches' Brew -- a collection of horror stories and tales of the supernatural that trace the influence of women on the genre from the early Gothic to the psychological horror fiction of the present.

From Ann Radcliffe and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (among the most notable of the early practitioners of the "witch" craft) to mainstream contemporary authors Joyce Carol Oates and Agatha Christie, Witches' Brew contains a ghoulish array of seventeen tales by these and other distinguished writers, including Flannery O'Connor, Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf.

Muller and Pronzini's carefully compiled anthology spans nearly two hundred years and the entire spectrum of women's horror and supernatural fiction. Witches' Brew places women's horror fiction in its proper historical and literary context, and sheds new light on the genre as a whole. The editors' introduction, along with the informative biographical notes that precede each story, provides a new perspective on the role of women writers over the last two centuries.

For anyone who has ever wondered what evil lurks in the hearts of women, Witches' Brew will offer astonishing insights into the darker side of the female imagination.

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (ed.): Wiches' Brew. Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women. Macmillan Midnight Library, ISBN: 0025992309 (October, 1984), 323 p., $19.95.