The Web She Weaves brings together twenty-three mystery and suspense stories by women, from Gothic horror tales to hypnotic tales of psychological suspense.

Included are: The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes -- The Duchess at Prayer by Edith Wharton -- The Man in the Inverness Cape by Baroness Orczy -- The Woman in the Store by Katherine Mansfield -- Murder in the Fishing Cat by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Lipstick by Mary Roberts Rhinehart -- Postiche by Mignon Eberhart -- Suspicion by Dorothy L. Sayers -- Harlequin's Lane by Agatha Christie -- His Heart Could Break by Craig Rice -- Chinoiserie by Helen McCloy -- Good-bye Miss Lizzie Borden by Lillian de la Torre -- McGowney's Miracle by Margaret Millar -- St. Patrick's Day in the Morning by Charlotte Armstrong -- The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson -- The Snail Watcher by Patricia Highsmith -- The Locked Room by Celia Fremlin -- The Fall of a Coin by Ruth Rendell -- Double Jeopardy by Susan Dunlap -- My Neighbor, Ay by Joyce Harriman -- Norman and the Killer by Joyce Carol Oates -- Cattails by Marcia Muller -- Great-Aunt Allie's FLypapers by P.D. James.