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A review by musingswithmiranda
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson
4.0
Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson is a nonfiction book that details the lives and works of women who have contributed to the growth of horror and speculative fiction. Many of these women have been overlooked or have not been given credit where credit was due. However, the authors of this book set out to show just how many women have helped and still help shape what we know and think about horror and speculative fiction today.
The book is broken up into eight different parts that are then broken down into sections about various authors. The main parts include things like the founding mothers, hauntings, the occult, pulps, etc. Each part is full of genuinely interesting information about writers you may know or ones you may have never even heard of. Kröger and Anderson do a great job at presenting this information with details about the authors, overviews of different works, quotes, and suggested reading lists. They don’t present an overwhelming amount of information, but they present enough to open you up to new ideas and spark your interest. Also, the cover and illustrations are gorgeous.
I learned a lot from this book, and I discovered a multitude of new authors and works to check out. It was impossible to read without making notes about cool new books to check out after. I highly recommend Monster, She Wrote to those who are curious about women in writing, horror, and speculative fiction.
The book is broken up into eight different parts that are then broken down into sections about various authors. The main parts include things like the founding mothers, hauntings, the occult, pulps, etc. Each part is full of genuinely interesting information about writers you may know or ones you may have never even heard of. Kröger and Anderson do a great job at presenting this information with details about the authors, overviews of different works, quotes, and suggested reading lists. They don’t present an overwhelming amount of information, but they present enough to open you up to new ideas and spark your interest. Also, the cover and illustrations are gorgeous.
I learned a lot from this book, and I discovered a multitude of new authors and works to check out. It was impossible to read without making notes about cool new books to check out after. I highly recommend Monster, She Wrote to those who are curious about women in writing, horror, and speculative fiction.