Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction By: Lisa Kr?ger, Melanie R Anderson

Author: Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson
Narrated by: Erin Bennett

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.

2.0M	01 - Introduction.mp3
2.9M	02 - Part 1.mp3
4.2M	03 - Part 1 - Mad Madge Margaret Cavendish.mp3
5.1M	04 - Part 1 - Terror Over Horror Ann Radcliffe.mp3
7.0M	05 - Part 1 - The Original Goth Girl Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.mp3
2.8M	06 - Part 1 - Scandalizing Jane Austen Regina Maria Roche.mp3
3.7M	07 - Part 1 - Purveyor of Guts and Gore Mary Anne Radcliffe.mp3
3.3M	08 - Part 1 - Exhibitor of Murder and Harlotry Charlotte Dacre.mp3
3.5M	09 - Part 2.mp3
5.7M	10 - Part 2 - Ghosts Are Real Elizabeth Gaskell.mp3
4.0M	11 - Part 2 - Born Storyteller Charlotte Riddell.mp3
4.8M	12 - Part 2 - The Most Learned Woman Amelia Edwards.mp3
3.8M	13 - Part 2 - The Most Productive Writer Pauline E. Hopkins.mp3
5.0M	14 - Part 2 - Ghostwriter à la Garçonne Vernon Lee.mp3
3.6M	15 - Part 2 - Voice for the Dead Margaret Oliphant.mp3
4.1M	16 - Part 2 - The Spine-Tingler Edith Wharton.mp3
2.0M	17 - Part 3.mp3
4.5M	18 - Part 3 - Scribe of the Supernatural Marjorie Bowen.mp3
3.7M	19 - Part 3 - Maker of Female Masterminds L. T. Meade.mp3
3.7M	20 - Part 3 - Casualty of War Alice Askew.mp3
3.9M	21 - Part 3 - Speaker to the Spirits Margery Lawrence.mp3
4.0M	22 - Part 3 - Britian's Psychic Defender Dion Fortune.mp3
3.3M	23 - Part 4.mp3
4.5M	24 - Part 4 - Exploring Our Depths Margaret St. Clair.mp3
3.3M	25 - Part 4 - Space Vamp Queen Catherine Lucille (C. L.) Moore.mp3
3.9M	26 - Part 4 - Deep South Storyteller Mary Elizabeth Counselman.mp3
4.0M	27 - Part 4 - Seer of the Unseen Gertrude Barrows Bennett.mp3
2.7M	28 - Part 4 - Night Writer Everil Worrell.mp3
4.1M	29 - Part 4 - Keeping the Wild West Weird Eli Colter.mp3
2.7M	30 - Part 5.mp3
3.3M	31 - Part 5 - Chronicler of Pain and Loss Dorothy Macardle.mp3
5.9M	32 - Part 5 - The Queen of Horror Shirley Jackson.mp3
4.7M	33 - Part 5 - The Dame of Dread Daphne du Maurier.mp3
4.6M	34 - Part 5 - Haunted by History Toni Morrison.mp3
3.2M	35 - Part 5 - Monstrosity in the Mundane Elizabeth Engstrom.mp3
3.9M	36 - Part 6.mp3
3.3M	37 - Part 6 - Recipes for Fear Joanne Fischmann.mp3
3.3M	38 - Part 6 - Where Evil Meets Innocence Ruby Jean Jensen.mp3
4.7M	39 - Part 6 - Nightmares in the Attic V. C. Andrews.mp3
3.2M	40 - Part 6 - Kafka of the Weird Kathe Koja.mp3
4.0M	41 - Part 6 - Adversary for the Devil Lisa Tuttle.mp3
3.6M	42 - Part 6 - Rewriting Snow White Tanith Lee.mp3
3.6M	43 - Part 7.mp3
4.4M	44 - Part 7 - Queen of the Damned Anne Rice.mp3
3.5M	45 - Part 7 - Teller of Feminist Fairy Tales Helen Oyeyemi.mp3
3.0M	46 - Part 7 - Modern Gothic Ghost Maker Susan Hill.mp3
4.1M	47 - Part 7 - Welcome to the Dark Séance Sarah Waters.mp3
3.8M	48 - Part 7 - Teller of Bloody Fables Angela Carter.mp3
4.7M	49 - Part 7 - Afrofuturist Horrorist Jewelle Gomez.mp3
3.1M	50 - Part 8.mp3
5.1M	51 - Part 8 - Lovecraft Revisited and Revised The New Weird.mp3
3.6M	52 - Part 8 - Polishing the Fangs The New Vampire.mp3
3.2M	53 - Part 8 - Home, Deadly Home The New Haunted House.mp3
4.7M	54 - Part 8 - This Is the End (Again) The New Apocalypse.mp3
4.1M	55 - Part 8 - Sharper Weapons, Sharper Victims The New Serial Killer.mp3
1.4M	56 - Conclusion.mp3
213M	total