Monster, She Wrote, The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Kröger, Lisa -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Part One: The Founding Mothers

Margaret Cavendish: Mad Madge Ann Radcliffe: Terror over Horror Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Original Goth Girl Regina Maria Roche: Scandalizing Jane Austen Mary Anne Radcliffe: Purveyor of Guts and Gore Charlotte Dacre: Exhibitor of Murder and Harlotry

Part Two: Haunting Tales

Elizabeth Gaskell: Ghosts Are Real Charlotte Riddell: Born Storyteller Amelia Edwards: The Most Learned Woman Paula E. Hopkins: The Most Productive Writer Vernon Lee: Ghostwriter à la Garçonne Margaret Oliphant: Voice for the Dead Edith Wharton: The Spine-Tingler

Part Three: Cult of the Occult

Marjorie Bowen: Scribe of the Supernatural L. T. Meade: Maker of Female Masterminds Alice Askew: Casualty of War Margery Lawrence: Speaker to the Spirits Dion Fortune: Britian’s Psychic Defender

Part Four: The Women Who Wrote the Pulps

Margaret St. Clair: Exploring Our Depths Catherine Lucille Moore: Space Vamp Queen Mary Elizabeth Counselman: Deep South Storyteller Gertrude Barrows Bennett: Seer of the Unseen Everil Worrell: Night Writer Eli Colter: Keeping the Wild West Weird

Part Five: Haunting the Home

Dorothy Macardle: Chronicler of Pain and Loss Shirley Jackson: The Queen of Horror Daphne du Maurier: The Dame of Dread Toni Morrison: Haunted by History Elizabeth Engstrom: Monstrosity in the Mundane

Part Six: Paperback Horror

Joanne Fischmann: Recipes for Fear Ruby Jean Jensen: Where Evil Meets Innocence V. C. Andrews: Nightmares in the Attic Kathe Koja: Kafka of the Weird Lisa Tuttle: Adversary for the Devil Tanith Lee: Rewriting Snow White

Part Seven: The New Goths

Anne Rice: Queen of the Damned Helen Oyeyemi: Teller of Feminist Fairy Tales Susan Hill: Modern Gothic Ghost Maker Sarah Waters: Welcome to the Dark Séance Angela Carter: Teller of Bloody Fables Jewelle Gomez: Afrofuturist Horrorist

Part Eight: The Future of Horror and Speculative Fiction

The New Weird: Lovecraft Revisited and Revised The New Vampire: Polishing the Fangs The New Haunted House: Home, Deadly Home The New Apocalypse: This Is the End (Again) The New Serial Killer: Sharper Weapons, Sharper Victims

Glossary Notes Suggested Reading Index Acknowledgments About the Authors