The Women of Horror gathers thirty enduring tales that map women's long, inventive engagement with the Gothic, supernatural, and psychologically uncanny. Across ghost stories, haunted houses, ancestral secrets, cursed objects, spectral doubles, and domestic terrors, the volume ranges from Romantic and Victorian Gothic to fin-de-siècle sensation, regional realism, and early twentieth-century psychological horror. Its standout episodes of imprisonment, revenance, and unsettling inheritance reveal horror as both a popular mode and a searching literary language for fear, desire, social constraint, and the unknown. The contributors constitute a remarkable transatlantic and European constellation of novelists, poets, journalists, and popular storytellers. Their work intersects with the Gothic revival, Victorian spiritualism, New Woman writing, domestic fiction, sensation literature, and modern psychological narrative. Established canonical figures appear alongside writers too often marginalized in histories of horror, while the collection's international breadth demonstrates that women's supernatural fiction developed through diverse cultural anxieties and publishing traditions. Together, these voices reshape the genre's genealogy, showing women not merely as Gothic heroines but as its formidable architects. Ideal for students, scholars, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles, periods, and conceptions of terror within one volume. Readers will find both literary pleasure and historical insight in the conversations these stories create: between the domestic and the cosmic, the rational and the occult, and inherited convention and formal experiment.