Darker Shade of Noir (eBook)

New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers

Joyce Carol Oates (Herausgeber)

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2023
272 Seiten
Akashic Books (Verlag)
978-1-63614-138-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authorsincluding Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbottto explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.Featuring brand-new stories by:Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott,Raven Leilani,Aimee Bender, Lisa Lim,Cassandra Khaw,Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.WHILE THE COMMON BELIEFis that body horror as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the quintessential emblem of female body horror. In A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways.Should we know nothing of the female monsters of antiquity, Oates writes in her introduction to the volume, still we would know that body horror in its myriad manifestations speaks most powerfully to women and girls. To be female is to inhabit a body that is by nature vulnerable to forcible invasion, susceptible to impregnation and repeated pregnancies, condemned to suffer childbirth, often in the past early deaths in childbirth and in the aftermath of childbirth.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Akashic Noir
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Schlagworte: best female authors • best female horror authors • best feminist reads • best noir anthology • bestseller horror books • best short story collections • carmen maria machado • feminist short stories • ghost stories about women • gifts for horror fans • horror books for women • scary feminist • scary feminist books • Scary short stories • shirley jackson • women horror writers
• ISBN-10: 1-63614-138-2 / 1636141382
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63614-138-1 / 9781636141381