ABSTRACT
While there has been increased interest in women’s writing from the First World War, there has been less critical attention devoted to the development of the First World War short story, especially supernatural short fiction from the war. This article combines each of these avenues for studying First World War literature—the female perspective, the short-story form and the supernatural—by examining the First World War supernatural fiction of Henrietta Dorothy Everett. “Over the Wires” (1920), “The Whispering Wall” (1916) and “A Perplexing Case” (1920) each highlight the supernatural as a means of coping with wartime trauma and grief. In stories that center on war crimes, ancestral ghosts and shell shock, Everett gives readers a unique female perspective on the aftermath of war, as these stories concern how those on both the home front and the battlefield experience mysterious supernatural events that reflect the often inexplicable and unpredictable nature of war.
