This, the first of a projected series of annual volumes, scheduled to appear in the period between Halloween and Christmas each year, presents four weird stories by women writers whose supernatural output is small. The series as a whole will follow this pattern: small, quality supernatural tales by those who are not necessarily associated with writing in the genre.

For this first volume, Jack Adrian has gathered together tales by Patricia Wentworth, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Carola Oman, and Mollie Panter Downes. The result is a pleasing collection of supernatural tales of the quality you have come to associate with an Ash-Tree Press production.