Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

About Lisa KroegerLisa KrögerMelanie Anderson

Lisa and Melanie co-host the biweekly podcast Know Fear. Together they ve edited the academic titles Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences (2016) and Spectral Identities: Essays on Ghosting in Literature and Film (2013). Lisa Kroger s short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance magazine and the anthology Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing 2018). She s contributed to The Encyclopedia of the Vampire (Greenwood Press 2010) and Horror Literature through History (ABC-CLIO 2017). She holds a Ph.D. in English. Melanie R. Anderson is an assistant professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland MS. Her academic publication Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison (Tennessee Press 2013) was a finalist for a 2014 Ohioana Library Association Award and winner of the 2014 South Central MLA Book Prize. Natalya Balnova has shown her work in galleries worldwide and been recognized by International Print Center New York The New York Society of Etchers The Society of Illustrators and other professional organizations. Illustrator Nathan Fox lives in Kansas City Missouri with his wife and daughter. His work has appeared in the New York Times The New Yorker Rolling Stone Wired Print Spin and countless other national publications.