Monster, She Wrote
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Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier? Have you read the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era? Or the stories of Gertrude Barrows Bennett, whose writing influenced H.P. Lovecraft? Monster, She Wrote shares the stories of women past and present who invented horror, speculative, and weird fiction and made it great. You ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V.C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Coltor, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today s vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). And each profile includes a curated reading list so you can seek out the spine-chilling tales that interest you the most.
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.