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

 

I recently listened to the unabridged audio version of Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson and narrated by Erin Bennett.

Listening time for Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson is 7 hours, 29 minutes.

I was able to download Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson for FREE from Audible.

Below is my honest, unbiased review for Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson.

Oh, my word!! Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson is the surprise read of 2020 for me. I listened to this nonfiction book on a whim this month and LOVED every single second of it! I didn't expect to love this book so much.

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction is methodically well written and is organized into eight main sections, which highlight different subgenres of horror and speculative fiction. Each of the eight sections offers short chapters that highlight different notable women authors that fall into that particular section by giving an author biography, notable works written by each author not to be missed, along with the names of authors with similar works/writing, and a quote. 

I am familiar with quite a few of the women authors mentioned in Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson. However, there are many more new to me women authors mentioned in Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson that I now have a long list of new to me authors/books to read in the future.

Below is the publisher's summary for Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger from Audible:

Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.

Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t 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 husband’s 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. You’ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Coltor, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today’s vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales.

Part biography, part reader’s 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.

I am giving Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger a rating of 5 stars out of 5 stars.

Until my next post, happy reading!!