Set of stories strangely gloomy about unknown time with husband (9)
I believe the answer is:
mythology
'set of stories strangely gloomy' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'about unknown time with husband' is the wordplay.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'unknown' becomes 'myology' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'time' becomes 't'.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'husband' becomes 'h'.
't'+'h'='th'
'myology' placed around 'th' is 'MYTHOLOGY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mythology that I've seen before include "Body of old fables" , "Legend" , "Legends and sagas, in general" , "Study of ancient tales of gods and heroes" .)