Women's Weird 2 - More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Roland Topor and the spread of AIDS

and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement

esoteric engravings and the charm and lure of fairytales

In the vein of the well-known drug writings of De Quincey and Baudelaire from a century earlier and those of his contemporaries Walter Benjamin and Jean Cocteau –- and foreshadowing the later writings of Aldous Huxley and Carlos Castaneda on psychoactive drugs –- Witkacy composed Narcotics in 1930 to discuss and document not only his own experimentation with different substances but the nature of addiction itself and the prevailing social attitude toward drugs

In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation

dreamlike quality

Women's Weird 2 - More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Roland Topor and the spread of AIDSWomen's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891 1937 ISBN 9781912766444 paperback from Handheld Classics *** For fans of the best selling Womens Weird anthology comes the next installment of stories by female writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic. Edited by literary historian Melissa Edmundson, Womens Weird 2 features thirteen classic Weird short stories that showcase how