The Tiger Skin
And Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt
Published on 18. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7123-5578-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
274 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7123-5578-0 (9780712355780)
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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.
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.