| Description |
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| 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 journy 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Horror tales -- Women authors.
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| Genre/Form |
Body horror fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- editor, contributor.
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Bender, Aimee, contributor.
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Due, Tananarive, 1966- contributor.
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Abbott, Megan, contributor.
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Lim, Lisa, contributor.
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Atwood, Margaret, contributor.
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Tuttle, Lisa, 1952- contributor.
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LaBrie, Aimee, 1969- contributor.
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Leilani, Raven, contributor.
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Khaw, Cassandra, contributor.
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Shiroma, Yumi Dineen, contributor.
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Hand, Elizabeth, contributor.
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Martin, Valerie, contributor.
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Kohler, Sheila, contributor.
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Hausler, Laurel, 1977- illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781636141343 (paperback) |
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163614134X (paperback) |
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9781636141374 (hardcover) |
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1636141374 (hardcover) |
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