The fox woman & other stories Book

Most of the stories--I'm thinking of "The Fox Woman" and "The Women of the Wood" specifically--have such an ambiguous moral stance that feels at odds with the romantic style of writing.

Charles Meredith is an obvious villain and dastard, and it is easy to wish vengeance against him, but his human villainy is commonplace compared to the fox woman of the title, with her air of delicate menace and cool inhumanity and inscrutable purposes. The story's ambiguous conclusion, where the fox spirit is set loose in America, suggests a story half-told.

Likewise, the conflict between the tree spirits and the human inhabitants of "The Women of the Wood" doesn't lend itself to easy good-and-evil dissection.