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Women of the Withered Age

Women of the Withered Age

Pembroke, Richard

Paperback

General World History

ISBN13: 9798199028196
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 11 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
History remembers kings, conquerors, and wars. This book remembers the women the world tried to erase.

In Women of the Withered Age, Richard Pembroke presents a spellbinding collection of gothic historical tales where women step beyond the boundaries society draws around them-and discover what waits in the shadows when they do.

From the wind-lashed cliffs of 1880s California, where a grieving woman returns to a house that remembers too much, to the monsoon-drenched courts of Baroda, India, where a sharp-minded young woman uncovers a cult that weaponises fate, these stories move through haunted homes, forbidden archives, secret societies, and uncanny forces that take particular interest in women who refuse to be small.

Some of these women are thieves, scholars, rebels, lovers, investigators, survivors. Some are hunted. Some are haunted. Some become the very thing the world fears.

But all of them are changed.

Dark, atmospheric, and fiercely feminist, Women of the Withered Age weaves together supernatural mystery, historical intrigue, and quiet rage into a collection where the margins of history become the main story-and the forgotten finally speak.

Perfect for readers who love:

  • Gothic & supernatural historical fiction
  • Haunted houses, secret cults, and cursed artifacts
  • Feminist reimaginings of the past
  • Interlinked stories and hidden histories
  • Slow-burn dread with literary prose

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