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The Tiger Skin

And Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt
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A meeting of lost souls in the care of a headless coachman. An obsession with eugenics descends into a cruel madness. In 1911, the British writer, feminist and literary salon hostess Violet Hunt published her groundbreaking first collection of uncanny stories, Tales of the Uneasy, exploring... Read More
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This collection repositions the famed literary hostess Violet Hunt in terms of her significant contribution to the development of uncanny fiction in the early twentieth century.

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A meeting of lost souls in the care of a headless coachman. An obsession with eugenics descends into a cruel madness. In 1911, the British writer, feminist and literary salon hostess Violet Hunt published her groundbreaking first collection of uncanny stories, Tales of the Uneasy, exploring psychological and ghostly hauntings shot through with tragedy. Seeking to promote Hunt's achievements as a writer often obscured by the famous authors of her social set literary historian Melissa Edmundson presents a new edition of her eeriest work, including material from Hunt's 1923 volume More Tales of the Uneasy.

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780712355780

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: British Library Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Melissa Edmundson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Violet Hunt (18621942) was a British author and literary hostess. As an active feminist, she wrote many novels of the New Woman genre and founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League and participated in the founding of International PEN. She also authored two collections of supernatural stories, Tales of the Uneasy and More Tales of the Uneasy.

Melissa Edmundson is a collector, scholar and anthologist specialising in strange and uneasy fiction particularly by women writers of Victorian and Edwardian periods. She has published several collections of classic short stories with Victorian Secrets and Handheld Press including Women's Weird and Women's Weird 2 in 2019 and 2020.

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