Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kröger

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

Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kröger

352 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging dark informative fast-paced

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Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn't exist with...

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