A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates

A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers

Joyce Carol Oates with Elizabeth Hand, Lisa Lim, Margaret Atwood, Joanna Margaret, Tananarive Due, Aimee Bender, Megan Abbott, Raven Leilani, Sheila Kohler, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, Cassandra Khaw, Yumi Dineen Shiroma, Valerie Martin

266 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction horror literary short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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While the common belief is that “body horror” as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the “quintessential emblem of female body horror.” In A D...

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