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A good retrospective of women throughout the ages who pioneered & innovated the horror and speculative fiction genre. A little light on analysis but I enjoyed the way it was broken down by trends. Audio was not the best format for this just because I had to keep stopping to google someone or add books to my wishlist & I would rathe have had a hard copy to refer back to

I loved this as much as I figured I would! Such a witty and fun overview of some of the women pioneers of dark and spooky fiction, and it definitely introduced me to a few I‘d never heard of but now want to read, like Pauline E. Hopkins, Margery Lawrence, and Dorothy Macardle. Loved how it recommended specific works and similar contemporary titles/authors for each profiled author, too. Thanks again to @wen4blu for this excellent #AHRS gift!

@wen4blu !! Thank you so much for this perfect #AHRS gift! I couldn‘t love it more. So excited to own the tagged book! The monogram bookmark is fantastic and the candy from your local shop was so thoughtful/is really delicious (lovely chocolate, and also the candy corn is notably better than your average candy corn! 😁). And OMG re: the Chiltern Frankenstein edition - it is SO gorgeous and special. 😍😍😍 Thanks again and have a great Halloween!

I just picked this up the other day and I'm SO EXCITED to read it this spooky season! 🎃🎃🎃

I was intrigued by this book about women who write horror even though it is not "my genre."

Or is it???

Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, VC Andrews, Ann Rice, Daphne Du Maurier...

I was excited to read about all of the above and learned many names that I am not familiar with, but am excited to explore.

Has anyone read Tananarive Due? She is going to be at a book festival I am attending next month. I may have to get a book signed by her...

This was brilliant and free with audible! If you‘re interested in female horror/occult/gothic/speculative writers this is a great listen. Certainly has given me new authors to read and more books to add to the tbr 4.5 ⭐️

I'm so excited to read this book that a sweet friend of mine just sent to me!

Capping my Women‘s History Month 2022 with a literary history of the women writers who helped shape my favorite genre. 😈 A fairly good reference book that includes the founding mothers of Gothic fiction, the ladies of the pulp, 80‘s paperback authors, women of the occult and science fiction, and the diverse spread of modern day authors who are reinventing the serial killer, weird fiction, cosmic horror, the haunted house, you name it.

Finished a #BookSpin from September! I started this one on Kindle and ultimately finished on audio because multitasking. But this is one I would definitely revisit and wouldn‘t mind owning a physical copy. I am a sucker for books about books even though it means expanding my TBR *insert I‘ll make it fit gif from Cinderella* #BookSpinBingo #Adventathon #WrapItUpReadathon #WinterGames #TeamGameSleighers 203 words for #WGWordSearch #WinterGames2021

If you want a shallow dive into the history of women writing horror this is the exact book for you! It talks about the beginning of horror fiction and the women who pioneered it into the authors who write horror today. I enjoyed the reading list sections in each mini-biographies even though it just made my tbr longer. This book also has cute illustrations but I read the kindle version. I plan on buying a physical copy though cause they are cute!

Can't decide if I want this more for myself or the Mary Shelley fanboy I'm married to

I am terrible at reading nonfiction. So, this #nonfictionnovember I've lined up a few nonfiction titles I've had my eye on for a while.
Cracked this beauty open today and it looks very promising!! 🤞
Any recs for nonfiction that reads like fiction would be much appreciated!! 👍

Happy Halloween!

I spent part of my evening with a hot toddy and this interesting little read. 💚💚

#spookoween

🎃🎃🎃🎃 I really enjoyed this interesting and fascinating look at women authors that pioneered horror novels. Even though horror is not my thing I added a few titles to my tbr.

#falltreasures #octobertbr #spookoweenreadathon

Monsters, witches, werewolves, pumpkins, Salem witch trials and a twilight man, my #waitingtoberead readathon pile is stacked for some Halloween fun.

Fall is coming, and with it more horror and spooky reading.

This book not only sounds great but it feels and looks great — lovely typography and illustrations. It‘s just a joy! #TBRtemptation

Ah, yes. Ann Radcliffe knew how to terrify. "Patriarchy and greed. They'll get you every time, no supernatural phenomenon required."

1) I'm currently working through Monster She Wrote, though the last I read and finished was probably The Queer Principles of Kitt Webb
2) 👍 for both! I'm especially loving the illustrations in Monster She Wrote
3) oh, I'm genre trash and rarely leave my SciFi/Fantasy/Horror/Romance quadrangle - there's just so much inside of it!

Yaay so excited! I just got this ebook on sale for $2.99. It‘s been great so far, although I‘m only a few pages in.

This book is a fun rundown of women writers of the weird and scary and the ways that the horror genre can hide transgressive and radical ideas, giving women a voice about topics/issues they might not otherwise be able to talk about. I've read a good number of these, but still ended up adding more than 60 titles to my TBR. It can get a teensy bit tedious to read this straight through, but I enjoyed it in sections and with a notebook by my side.

Christmas haul! Really enjoying this so far 😊😊😊

@Soubhiville hosted a virtual #jolabokaflod gathering for our book club - and we did a book/treat swap as part of the evenings festivities. This was my incredible gift from @ThePageantHam and I‘m in love with everything. (I know Jolabokaflod is traditionally celebrated with chocolate, but I‘m not a big chocoholic 🤷🏻‍♀️😄). Feeling grateful and loved this evening. 🥰📚

Today was going to be cookie-baking day, but I discovered that I gave birth to the type of children who consider eggs a special Christmas breakfast and who don't feel their holiday is diminished by the absence of baked goods. So cookie-baking day has become reading day, a change I'm cool with. And a little later on I'll fix some no-bakes, which are my cookie of choice.

"Horror, strangeness, and fear have always been part of literature."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Uh-oh. I think this book is going to make my TBR explode.

Today‘s #Podcast is ‘Monster, She Wrote‘ by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson. They discuss women writing in the darker genre, this episode is about Charlotte Parkin Tillman‘s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper‘, a novella that I love and that I used in my dissertation on representations of female madness in art. #NFN2020 #Podcast

It‘s #HauntedHollowSwap open day!!! Thank you @NikkiM5 for the fun, monstrous books!! I appreciate the pandemic mask, slippers and cool coffee mug! Happy Halloween 🎃

Ringing in the Halloween 🎃 season with the almost perfect read 👍

I‘ve been plodding away at this since last weekend during runs and commutes. I‘m excited to try some of these lesser-known writers‘ work based on this book! I will say this title is probably more suited to being read than listened to....there were a few times I lost focus and track of whose work was being described and I was unable to search for and add books to my TBR list while driving and shuffling forward while trying to breathe!
76 points

Another rainy day, another perfect time to finish some reading 📚

#MonsterSheWrote #SpeculativeFiction #HorrorFiction #Horror #History

MINI LIBRARY HAUL! Book about speculative fiction pioneers? A YA spin on the CLUE boardgame? YES PLEASE.

-#MonsterSheWrote
-#IntheHallwiththeKnife (A Clue Mystery) by Diana Peterfreund

#trbcrewbingo #tbrcrewbuddyread

This is an awesome book! So many great female authors. Many added to my TBR. Thanks @ElizaMarie for the buddy read!

#Two4Tuesday

1. I don‘t consider much a book sin anymore. I‘m just happy you‘re reading.
2. Yes. I‘ll take animal narrators any day (except for Animal Farm - ugh 😑).

Written by 2 Female Authors about other amazing Female authors!!!

#TBRCrewBingo
@jessinikkip , @jb72 , @AkashaVampie , @AsYouWish , @AnansiGirl , @Catherine_Willoughby , @MissAimz_55 , @cortg

Loved loved this book! It really enlightened me on other books I really need to read! I am glad also that we did this #buddyread (@jb72) this month because... I have a bunch of books stacked that I would like to see if I can find them for October (great spooky books!)

#GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew
#BookSpin
#BookSpinBingo
@TheAromaOfBooks

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72

The last of the adds!

The Husband Stitch - Carmen Maria Machado
Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton
Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
Undead and Unwed - MaryJanice Davidson
The Moth Diaries - Rachel Klein
Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates
Survivors Club - Lauren Beukes

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72

Of course there are more!!

Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice (surprised I have never read this one!)
White is for Witching - Helen Oyeyemi
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72 

More more for my TBR!

My Bloody Valentine - Joanne Fischmann
Slay Bells - Joanne Fischmann
My Sweet Audrina - VC Andrews
The Cypher - Kathe Koja
White asSnow - Tanith Lee

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72 

TBRs for this part

The Uninvited - Dorothy Macardle
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson ( I have this one on Chirp)
Rebecca - Daphne du Murier
The Birds - Daphne du Murier
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Lizzie Bordon - Elizabeth Engstrom

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72

I don't know if its because of the nature of VT or just me feeling more of a “women power“ thing lately (also its one of the first times in my life that I have true women friends - where we lift each other up) .. Anyway I have felt more tied to being a woman, nature, the moon. Just everything.

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72

So this part didn't have as many books to add to my TBR because well.. it had some sci-fy type of books and it is not really my thing. But.. these peaked my interest :)

Half in Shadow - Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Mounstress - Marjorie Liu
The Canal - Everil Worrell

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72

#TBRCrewbuddyread #buddyread

I just finished part two of Monster, She Wrote. The last story was on Edith Wharton. I would recommend Roman Fever by Wharton. It‘s seemingly a benign story, but the ending is superb.

https://www.newberry.org/sites/default/files/calendar-attachments/Roman%20Fever%...

Part 3 TBR (I am not a huge fan of short stories. So this reading list is a bit shorter)

Black Magic- A Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist : Marjorie Bowen
A Master of Mysteries - Meade & Eustance
The Haunted Saucepan -Margery Lawrence
Demon Lover - Deon Fortune
Death-Defying Doctor Mirage - Jen Van Meter

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72

The Haunted Saucepan!! Ha!!!
Margery Lawrence

#ReadingWithTBRCrew, #BuddyRead, #GothicWomen @jb72

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72

So here is Part 2's TBR!

Gothic Tales - Elizabeth Gaskell
Lois the Witch - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Tales of Amelia Edwards
Of One Blood - Pauline Hopkins
Phantom Lover - Vernon Lee
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

#MonsterSheWrote , #GothicWomen #ReadingWithTBRCrew @jb72