Monster, she wrote : the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction / Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson.
Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband's heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret "Mad Madge" Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You'll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today's vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales. Part biography, part reader's guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.--Amazon
Record details
- ISBN: 9781683691389
- ISBN: 1683691385
- Physical Description: 319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-310) and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Founding Mothers -- Haunting Tales -- Cult of the Occult -- The Women Who Wrote the Pulps -- Haunting the Home -- Paperback Horror -- The New Goths -- The Future of Horror and Speculative Fiction. |
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Subject: | Horror in literature. Women authors. Horror tales, English > History and criticism. Horror tales, American > History and criticism. Women authors > History and criticism. |
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Wayne County Public Library | 920 KRO (Text) | 31843001253216 | Nonfiction | Checked Out | 05/08/2024 |