lost_hitsu 's review for:

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kröger

4.0

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For some reason, I expected this to be a mildly popularised academic study on women and the macabre - what I got instead was a chatty, informal overview of famous and less famous female authors of speculative fiction. This book is great for discovering new and often overlooked books on themes that range from horror to postapo, and the carefully selected recommendations included after each author (together with the lack of spoilers) certainly suggest that was the intended aim of the volume. I only wish this wasn't so aggressively anglo-centric - yes I know it's clearly geared towards a US audience, but it would be nice to at least acknowledge that books are actually published in other parts of the world as well.