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

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As a reviewer and a rabid reader of speculative fiction, I am continually astonished when I see complaints about women finding success with fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Seriously. There’s a contingent of readers out there (and writers as well, I suspect) that believe sci-fi and spec-fic should remain the domain of white male writers.

And that’s the stupidest thing in the world because without women, the genre couldn’t exist. Monster, She Wrote carries the subtitle “The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction” and the keyword there is pioneered. They’ve been part of the genre from the beginning, and it’s about bleeping time these names got the spotlight they have long deserved.

You’ll recognize plenty of the names in this book — Du Maurier, Shelley, Jackson, Lee, Rice — but it’s the names you don’t recognize that make the book a devastatingly fascinating read. Whether you like your stories with chills, thrills, or kills — ghosts, psychological horror, or monsters — you are covered here. Best of all, you’ll end up with a terrific reading list to follow up on when you’re done.

Monster, She Wrote celebrates and educates in equal measure, enriching the reading lists of modern genre buffs while reminding us just how key women have been to the genre as a whole. Wonderful stuff.


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Author Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
Star Count /5
Format Hard
Page Count 352 pages
Publisher Quirk Books
Publish Date 17-Sep-2019
ISBN 9781683691389
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Issue November 2019
Category Biographies & Memoirs
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