Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women

Preface Introduction — Paula Volsky WOMEN IN DANGER The Last Kiss — Maurice Level A Bride for the Devil — Stuart Palmer The Unspeakable Betrothal — Robert Bloch Am I Insane? — Guy de Maupassant Game for Motel Room — Fritz Leiber Porphyria's Lover — Robert Browning The Peace That Crusheth Understanding — Julia L. Keefer Lovedeath — Marvin Kaye The Countess Kathleen O'Shea — W. B. Yeats Centaurus Changeling — Marion Zimmer Bradley Snow — C. H. Sherman DANGEROUS WOMEN Lydia's Season — Patricia Mullen Spirits — Ivan Turgenev The Mystery of Black Jean — Julian Kilman Lady Eleanore's Mantle — Nathaniel Hawthorne The Thing at Ghent — Honoré de Balzac The Sisters — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Malevendra's Pool — Darrell Schweitzer Sylvia — Ira Levin Amour Dure — Vernon Lee The Were-Wolf — Clemence Housman The River Styx Runs Upstream — Dan Simmons WOMEN TROUBLED AND TROUBLING Passeur — Robert W. Chambers Putting the Devil into Hell — Giovanni Boccaccio The Lady in the Tower — Anne McCaffrey The White Dog — Feodor Sologub The Visit — Carole Buggé The Friends of the Friends — Henry James Past a Year and a Day — Annette Covino Ladies' Choice — Saralee Kaye The Night People — Edward D. Hoch Duet — Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg The Wooden Damsel — Toby Sanders Love Song from the Stars — Robert Sheckley Diesel Dream — Alan Dean Foster DISTAFF DARKNESS The Strange Voyage of Dr. Morbid — Jessica Amanda Salmonson The Gift — Susan C. Stone Vanishing — Hope Manville A Room with a Vie — Tanith Lee Babchi's Drawer — Gina M. Angelone Untitled — Morgan Llewelyn A Child's Game — Maryellen B. Wanderer The Wake of Reddy — Barbara Gallow The Other Mother — Lisa Tuttle A Dozen Roses — Jean Paiva Propagation of the Faith — Joan Vander Putten Angelica — Jane Yolen Walking Aunt Daid — Zenna Henderson Acknowledgments