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A darker shade of noir : new stories of body horror by women writers / edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Van Pelt Library PN6071.H727 D37 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales--Women authors.
- Horror tales.
- Genre:
- Body horror fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Akashic Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- "While the common belief is 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 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" -- Page 2 of cover.
- Contents:
- Part I: You've created a monster. Frank Jones / Aimee Bender ; Dancing / Tananarive Due ; Scarlet Ribbons / Megan Abbott ; Malena / Joanna Margaret ; Dancing with mirrors / Lisa Lim
- Part II: Morbid anatomy. Metempsychosis, or the journey of the soul / Margaret Atwood ; Concealed carry / Lisa Tuttle ; Gross Anatomy / Aimee LaBrie ; Breathing exercise / Raven Leilani ; Muzzle / Cassandra Khaw ; Her heart may fail her / Yumi Dineen Shiroma
- Part III: Out of body, out of time. The chair of tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853) / Joyce Carol Oates ; The seventh bride, or female curiosity / Elizabeth Hand ; Nemesis / Valerie Martin ; Sydney / Sheila Kohler.
- ISBN:
- 9781636141343
- 163614134X
- 9781636141374
- 1636141374
- OCLC:
- 1393992116
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