num_pages: 320
description: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literatures strangest tales from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldnt exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley creator of Frankenstein who was rumored to keep her late husbands heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret Mad Madge Cavendish who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. Youll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe V. C. Andrews) forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter Ruby Jean Jensen) and todays vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales.Part biography part readers guide the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels novellas and stories.
language: English
title: Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
publisher: Quirk Books