A previous Valancourt horror anthology really failed in terms of widening the representation of its writers, and I was enthused to read some forgotten works of women’s literature. Review: When I first heard about Valancourt’s Monster, She Wrote series, I got excited. In her introduction to this new edition, Lisa Kröger writes, “There are true horrors that await readers in all of Engstrom’s works … reminds me of another giant of horror literature, Shirley Jackson.Ĭontent Warnings: Cannibalism, Child Death, Fat Shaming, Body Horror, Bestiality (?), Domestic Abuse, Ableism These are weird and unsettling tales that will linger with the reader. In these stories, you will read about a woman asked to be complicit in her own mother’s death, a grandmother with a macabre hobby, a bizarre, phallic-shaped flower that portends evil for a married couple, a father whose son is caught up in a sinister government experiment. Summary: This collection of eighteen short tales, a novelette and a short novel takes the reader inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness Loves Us.
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