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A review by jenpaul13
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson
4.0
Women are capable of so many fascinating and wondrous things, including penning tales about eerie, haunting things as demonstrated in Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson.
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With a long list of women who have helped to craft and shape genres beloved by many, this collection provides some surface-level background for those women who have greatly contributed to furthering the literary canon of horror, Gothic, speculative, psychological, and weird fiction while offering suggestions of other works and authors readers might enjoy based on the specific woman's writing being briefly discussed. With the lives of the women seeming to mirror the boundaries they challenged within their writing, these authors have had a lasting impact on the literary world; even if their names might not be immediately familiar, their work is likely to be as it has been incorporated or adapted for the screen over the years. The structure of this collection is part biography and part suggested reading, separated into general categories of haunting fiction with accompanying illustrations to set the mood and each woman's work is demarcated by a notable pull-quote from her writing. A decent introductory read for the spooky Halloween season, it will likely add some new and classic stories to add to your reading list.
To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: http://makinggoodstories.wordpress.com/.
With a long list of women who have helped to craft and shape genres beloved by many, this collection provides some surface-level background for those women who have greatly contributed to furthering the literary canon of horror, Gothic, speculative, psychological, and weird fiction while offering suggestions of other works and authors readers might enjoy based on the specific woman's writing being briefly discussed. With the lives of the women seeming to mirror the boundaries they challenged within their writing, these authors have had a lasting impact on the literary world; even if their names might not be immediately familiar, their work is likely to be as it has been incorporated or adapted for the screen over the years. The structure of this collection is part biography and part suggested reading, separated into general categories of haunting fiction with accompanying illustrations to set the mood and each woman's work is demarcated by a notable pull-quote from her writing. A decent introductory read for the spooky Halloween season, it will likely add some new and classic stories to add to your reading list.