Monster, she wrote the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction

Weird fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. Meet the female authors who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales. And find out why their own stories are equally intriguing. Monster, She Wrote shares the stories of women past and present who invented horror,...

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Main Authors: Kröger, Lisa (Author), Anderson, Melanie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Quirk Books, [2019]
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300 |a 319 pages :  |b illustrations (some color) ;  |c 21 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and indexes. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a Weird fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. Meet the female authors who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales. And find out why their own stories are equally intriguing. 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. 
650 0 |a Horror in literature. 
650 0 |a Women authors. 
650 0 |a Horror tales, English  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Horror tales, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Women authors  |x History and criticism. 
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