The Tiger Skin

And Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt

Violet Hunt, Melissa Edmundson

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English

British Library
01 January 2026

Classic horror & ghost stories; Historical fiction; Short Stories Horror

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

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.

By: Violet Hunt
Edited by: Melissa Edmundson
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 65
ISBN: 9780712355780
ISBN 10: 0712355782
Series: British Library Tales of the Weird
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.