Monster, She Wrote

by Lisa Kröger

  Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer, The (Dacre), c06.1

  Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Hopkins), c10.1

  “Crawling Corpse, The” (Colter)

  “Crosley” (Engstrom)

  “Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar, The” (Bennett)

  Dance of Death, The (Fischmann), c30.1

  “Danger Word” (Due and Barnes)

  Dark Places (Flynn)

  Dead Girl, The (Gibson), c30.1

  Death’s Master (Lee)

  “Demon Love, The” (Bowen)

  Demon Lover, The (Fortune), c18.1, c18.2

  Description of the New World, Called the Blazing World, The (Cavendish), c01.1

  Desdemona (Morrison)

  “Devil Himself, The” (Counselman)

  Disappearance of Mr. Jeremiah Redworth, The (Riddell), c08.1

  Discovery of Witches, A (Harkness), c43.1

  Disturbed by Her Song (Lee)

  Divergent (Roth)

  “Doll, The” (du Maurier)

  Dolly (Hill)

  Don’t Explain: Short Fiction (Gomez), c41.1

  “Dream Detective, The (Tuttle)

  Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, The (Johnson), c42.1

  “Elemental Law, The” (Worrell)

  Enclosure, The (Hill), c38.1

  Etched City, The (Bishop), c42.1

  “Evils of Intemperance and Their Remedy” (Hopkins)

  Experimental Film (Files)

  “Eyes, The” (Wharton)

  Fairy Water (Riddell)

  Familiar Spirit (Tuttle), c34.1, c34.2

  Family Plot, The (Priest), c44.1

  Feast of All Saints, The (Rice), c36.1

  Fifth Season, The (Jemisin), c45.1

  Fingersmith (Waters)

  Fledgling (Butler), c41.1, c43.1

  Floating Café, The (Lawrence), c17.1

  “Florence Flannery” (Bowen)

  Flowers in the Attic (Andrews), c32.1, c32.2, c32.3

  “Four-Fifteen Express, The” (Edwards)

  Frankenstein (Shelley), c03.1, c03.2, bm1.1

  Frenchman’s Creek (du Maurier)

  “Friend Island” (Bennett)

  Future Home of the Living God (Erdrich)

  Gabriel (Tuttle)

  Get in Trouble (Link), c41.1, c42.1

  Ghosts (Wharton)

  Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, The (Wharton), c13.1

  Ghost Summer (Due), c28.1, c45.1

  Gilda Stories, The (Gomez), c41.1

  Gingerbread (Oyeyemi)

  Goat-Foot God, The (Fortune), c18.1

  God’s Clay (Askew)

  Gods of Green Mountain (Andrews)

  “Golden Whistle, The” (Colter)

  Gone Girl (Flynn)

  Good House, The (Due), c28.1

  Gothic Tales (Gaskell)

  Graveyard Apartment, The (Koike), c44.1

  “Gray Killer, The” (Worrell)

  “Grey Woman, The” (Gaskell)

  Grip of It, The (Jemc), c44.1

  Grownup, The (Flynn), c46.1

  Guilty Pleasures (Hamilton)

  Guys Named Bob (Engstrom)

  Half in Shadow (Counselman)

  Hammers on Bone (Khaw)

  Handmaid’s Tale, The (Atwood), c45.1

  Harrowing, The (Sokoloff), c44.1

  Haunted Rive, The (Riddell), c08.1

  “Haunted Saucepan, The” (Lawrence)

  Haunting, The (Jensen), c31.1

  Haunting of Hill House, The (Jackson), c26.1, c26.2

  Hauntings (Lee)

  Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales (Lee), c11.1

  Heads of Cerberus, The (Bennett), c22.1

  Heaven (Andrews)

  Her Body and Other Parties (Machado), c37.1, c41.1

  Hidden Bodies (Kepnes)

  Historian, The (Kostova), c43.1

  History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (Shelley)

  Home (Okorafor)

  Home Sweet Home (Jensen)

  “Horrer Howce” (St. Clair)

  House of Illusions (Jensen)

  House That Samael Built, The (Jensen), c31.1

  Hunger Games trilogy (Collins)

  “Husband Stitch, The” (Machado)

  Icarus Girl, The (Oyeyemi), c37.1

  “I Don’t Want to Be a Mother” (Lawrence)

  I’m the King of the Castle (Hill)

  Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The (Carter), c40.1

  Irish Republic, The (Macardle), c25.1

  “I Slept with My Uncle on My Wedding Night” (Andrews)

  Italian, The (Radcliffe), c02.1, c02.2

  Jamaica Inn (du Maurier)

  Jane Steele (Faye)

  Jump Rope (Jensen)

  Juniper’s Whitening (Oyeyemi)

  Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales (Bowen)

  “Kerfol” (Wharton)

  Kindred (Butler), c28.1, c41.1

  “Last Horror, The” (Colter), c24.1, c24.2, nts.1

  Last Man, The (Shelley), c03.1

  “Leonora” (Worrell), c23.1, c23.2

  Libertine, The (Dacre), c06.1

  Little Stranger, The (Waters), c39.1

  Living Evil, The (Jensen), c31.1

  Lizard Wine (Engstrom)

  Lizzie Borden (Engstrom)

  Lois the Witch (Gaskell)

  “Lottery, The” (Jackson), c26.1, c26.2, c26.3

  Love (Morrison)

  Luckiest Girl Alive (Knoll)

  Madame Holle (Lawrence)

  Madonna of Seven Moons, The (Lawrence), c17.1

  Magic for Beginners (Link)

  Maid of the Hamlet: A Tale, The (Roche), c04.1

  Mall, The (Grey), c44.1

  Mama (Jensen)

  Manfroné; or, The One-Handed Monk (Radcliffe), c05.1, c05.2

  “Man in the Green Coat, The” (Colter)

  Man in the Picture, The (Hill), c38.1

  “Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles, The” (St. Clair)

  Mary Barton (Gaskell)

  Master of Mysteries, A (Meade and Eustace), c15.1, c15.2

  Master of Shadows (Lawrence)

  Mathilda (Shelley)

  Migration, The (Marshall), c41.1

  “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (Moore)

  “Miss Mary Pask” (Wharton)

  Miss Brown (Lee)

  Mist in the Mirror, The (Hill), c38.1

  Moon Magic (Fortune)

  Moth Diaries, The (Klein), c44.1

  Mr. Fox (Oyeyemi)

  Mrs. de Winter (Hill)

  My Bloody Valentine (Fischmann)

  My Brother’s Wife (Edwards)

  My Cousin Rachel (du Maurier)

  My Sister, the Serial Killer (Braithwaite), c46.1

  My Soul to Keep (Due)

  Mysteries, The (Tuttle), c34.1

  Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), c02.1, c02.2

  Mystical Qabalah, The (Fortune), c18.1

  My Sweet Audrina (Andrews), c32.1, c32.2, nts.1

  “New Ritual” (St. Clair)

  Newsflesh trilogy (Grant)

  “Nightmare, The” (Bennett)

  Night Masquerade, The (Okorafor), c41.1

  Nights at the Circus (Carter)

  Night’s Master (Lee)

  Nights of the Round Table (Lawrence)

  Night Watch, The (Waters), c39.1

  Number Seven Queer Street (Lawrence)

  “Nut Bush Farm” (Riddell)

  Obelisk Gate, The (Jemisin), c45.1

  Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self (Hopkins), c10.1, c10.2

  “Old Nurse’s Tale, Th
e” (Gaskell), c07.1, c07.2, c07.3

  “On the Dead Man’s Chest” (Colter), c24.1, nts.1

  “Open Door, The” (Oliphant), c12.1, c12.2

  Opposite House, The (Oyeyemi), c37.1

  Outcast of Lazy S (Colter)

  “Pain of Glass, The” (Lee)

  “Parasite Mansion” (Counselman)

  Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland (Oliphant)

  “Patient Zero” (Due)

  Paying Guests, The (Waters), c39.1

  Perdido Street Station (Miéville)

  “Phantom Coach, The” (Edwards)

  Phantom Lover, A (Lee), c11.1, c11.2, c11.3

  Pillow Friend, The (Tuttle), c34.1

  “Pillows, The” (St. Clair)

  “Poor Clare, The” (Gaskell), c07.1, c07.2

  “Portrait of Roisin Dhu, The” (Macardle)

  Power, The (Alderman), c34.1, c45.1

  “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady” (Lee)

  Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Rice)

  Psychic Self-Defense (Fortune)

  Radzivil, A Romance (Radcliffe), c05.1

  Rebecca (du Maurier), c24.1, c25.1, c27.1, c27.2

  Red Tree, The (Kiernan), c42.1

  Roses of May (Hutchinson)

  Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, The (Carter), c40.1

  Salt Roads, The (Hopkinson), c41.1

  “Scoured Silk” (Bowen), c14.1, c14.2

  Sea Priestess, The (Fortune), c18.1

  Secret Oath; or, Blood-Stained Dagger, The (Radcliffe), c05.1

  Secrets of Doctor Taverner, The (Fortune), c18.1, c18.2

  “Seventh Sister” (Counselman), c21.1, c21.2

  Shadow People, The (St. Clair), c19.1

  “Shambleau” (Moore)

  Sharp Objects (Flynn)

  She Said Destroy (Bulkin)

  Shining Girls, The (Beukes), c46.1

  Shulamite, The (Askew), c16.1

  Shuri (Okorafor)

  Sicilian Romance, A (Radcliffe), c02.1

  Sign of the Labrys (St. Clair), c19.1, c19.2, c19.3

  Skin (Koja)

  Slaves’ Escape; or, The Underground Railroad (Hopkins), c10.1

  Slay Bells (Fischmann), c30.1, c30.2

  Sleep Donation (Russell)

  “Snow Child, The” (Carter)

  “Something to Brag About” (Colter)

  Song for Quiet, A (Khaw), c42.1

  Song of Solomon (Morrison)

  Songs of the Seraphim (Rice)

  Sookie Stackhouse novels (Harris)

  Sorceress of the Strand, The (Meade and Eustace), c15.1

  Station Eleven (Mandel)

  St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Russell), c40.1, c42.1

  Stone Sky, The (Jemisin), c45.1

  “Story of Salome, The” (Edwards)

  “Strange Christmas Game, A” (Riddell)

  “Stranger in the House” (Tuttle)

  Stranger Things Happen (Link)

  Stray-dog (Koja)

  Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy (Lee)

  Sucks to Be Me: The All-True

  Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe) (Pauley), c43.1

  Summer Children, The (Hutchinson), c46.1

  Sundial, The (Jackson), c26.1, c26.2, nts.1

  Survivor’s Club (Beukes)

  Swamplandia! (Russell)

  Tales from the Flat Earth series (Lee)

  Terraces of the Night, The (Lawrence), c17.1

  There’s Someone Inside Your House (Perkins)

  Thousands of Miles Up the Nile (Edwards)

  “Three Marked Pennies, The” (Counselman), c21.1, c21.2, c21.3

  Tipping the Velvet (Waters)

  Tomorrow of Yesterday, The (Lawrence), c17.1

  Trail of Lightning (Roanhorse), c45.1, c45.2

  “Tree of Life, The” (Moore)

  Twilight (Meyer)

  “Twonky, The” (Moore)

  Undead and Unwed (Davidson)

  Under the Poppy (Koja)

  Uneasy Freehold (Macardle)

  Unforeseen, The (Macardle), c25.1, c25.2, c25.3

  Uninhabited House, An (Riddell), c08.1

  “Unseen—Unfeared” (Bennett), c22.1, c22.2

  “Unwanted, The” (Counselman)

  Vampire Diaries, The (Smith), c43.1

  Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Russell)

  Vampire Tapestry, The (Charnas), c43.1

  Victimese (Oyeyemi)

  Vindication for the Rights of Women, A (Shelley), c03.1

  Violin (Rice)

  Viper of Milan, The (Bowen), c14.1, c14.2

  Vox (Dalcher)

  Waiting for Giovanni (Gomes and Waters)

  We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Jackson), c26.1, c26.2

  Weird Stories (Riddell)

  What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (Oyeyemi)

  When Darkness Loves Us (Engstrom), c29.1, c29.2

  White as Snow (Lee)

  White Is for Witching (Oyeyemi), c37.1, c37.2

  Who Fears Death (Okorafor)

  Windhaven (Tuttle and Martin), c34.1, c34.2

  Winged Bull, The (Fortune), c18.1

  Wise Children (Carter), c40.1

  Witching Hour, The (Rice), c36.1

  Woman in Black, The (Hill), c38.1, c38.2

  World of Girls, A (Meade), c15.1

  “Yellow and Red” (Lee)

  You (Kepnes)

  Zofloya; or, The Moor (Dacre), c06.1, c06.2

  Zombie (Oates)

  Subject Index

  African American speculative writing

  Afrofuturism, c41.1, c41.2, c41.3

  apocalyptic fiction, c03.1, c19.1, c20.1, c26.1, c27.1, c41.1, c45.1

  cosmic horror, c42.1, c42.2, c42.3, gls.1

  crime fiction

  detective fiction

  fairy tales, c19.1, c35.1, c35.2, c36.1, c37.1, c37.2, c40.1

  feminism and women’s rights, c02.1, c03.1, c03.2, c05.1, c06.1, c09.1, c11.1, c39.1, c40.1, nts.1

  gay authors. See LGBTQ+ authors

  ghost / haunting stories and authors, c06.1, c08.1, c09.1, c12.1. See also haunted house stories and authors

  Gothic fiction and authors, itr.1, c02.1, c03.1, c04.1, c05.1, gls.1. See also new Gothic stories and authors

  haunted house stories and authors, c24.1, c27.1, c28.1, c29.1

  Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, c13.1, c18.1, c18.2

  LGBTQ+ authors, c09.1, c11.1, c11.2, c27.1, c39.1, c39.2, c41.1

  new apocalyptic fiction

  new Gothic stories and authors, c35.1, c37.1, c38.1, c41.1, c44.1

  new serial killers

  new weird

  occult stories and authors, c13.1, c14.1, c15.1, c17.1

  paperback horror and authors, c29.1, c30.1, c33.1, c34.1

  penny dreadful, c16.1, gls.1

  pulps, c18.1, c19.1, c20.1, c23.1, c24.1, gls.1, nts.1

  realist fiction

  rebellion, writing as form of

  séances, c06.1, c16.1

  sentimentalism

  serial killers

  sexual healing

  Society of the Inner Light

  speculative fiction, c10.1, gls.1

  Spiritualism, c06.1, c06.2, c13.1, c17.1, c17.2, nts.1

  supernatural phenomena, study of

  supernatural stories. See ghost / haunting stories and authors; haunted house stories and authors; occult stories and authors

  Thelema, c13.1, nts.1

  thrillers, c26.1, c27.1, c27.2, c30.1, c32.1, c39.1, c46.1, gls.1

  vampires, c03.1, c13.1, c16.1, c23.1, c23.2, c36.1, c41.1,
c43.1

  weird fiction, c18.1, c20.1, c21.1, c24.1, c24.2, c42.1, gls.1

  weird Westerns

  Wicca

  zombies, c45.1, c46.1Thelema, c13.1, nts.1

  thrillers, c26.1, c27.1, c27.2, c30.1, c32.1, c39.1, c46.1, gls.1

  vampires, c03.1, c13.1, c16.1, c23.1, c23.2, c36.1, c41.1, c43.1

  weird fiction, c18.1, c20.1, c21.1, c24.1, c24.2, c42.1, gls.1

  weird Westerns

  Wicca

  zombies, c45.1, c46.1

  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  Acknowledgments

  This book was our passion project, but it doesn’t belong to us. It belongs to the women who have written the tales that we love, to those who helped shape the genre, and to those who right now have pen in hand, crafting the stories we will devour in the future. So to all the women writers—past, present, and future—we thank you.

  The idea for this book came from years of reading and many discussions over coffee, beginning with our time at the University of Mississippi and later on our podcast, the Know Fear Cast (a special thanks goes to Matt Saye, our cohost). Monster, She Wrote truly began to take shape at Stoker Con, where, thanks to the Horror Writers Association, we were able to pitch this book to Quirk Books. The entire team at Quirk has been phenomenal, especially super editor Rick Chillot, who helped guide us our entire way. We offer up our sincere gratitude, Rick. Special thanks, too, to our illustrator, Natalya Balnova, who exceeded our expectations. This book is truly a work of art. It takes our breath away every time we look at it.

  Lisa would like to offer special thanks to her boys at home, Robbie, Leo, and Eli. Robbie, you are forever my rock and my source of inspiration. Leo and Eli, my little monsters, I love you more than you will ever know. I write for you. Never forget that. Thank you to my father, for giving me my love of horror, and thank you to my mother, for encouraging me.

  Melanie would like to thank her family, particularly her parents, Paul and Deborah Anderson, for their support up to this point, and beyond. Bobbie, one of the best of man’s best friends, also deserves an honorable mention of gratitude. When I came home from the day job to sit down and write, she was always patient and pleasant company.

  And finally, thank you to the readers. This book is for you.

  Lisa Kröger’s short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance magazine and the anthology Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2018). She has contributed to The Encyclopedia of the Vampire (Greenwood Press, 2010), and Horror Literature through History (ABC-CLIO, 2017). She holds a PhD in English.

  Melanie R. Anderson is an assistant professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Her academic publication Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison (University of Tennessee Press, 2013) was a winner of the 2014 South Central MLA Book Prize. She holds a PhD in American literature.