Monster, She Wrote

Book #1 for 2024. I did mention I was reading a Cornell Woolrich book, but that’s part of the short story per day component of this reading plan thing I’m trying; this is the first book I’ve actually finished, whereas the Woolrich volume will likely be third or maybe even fourth by the time I finish with it.

I chose this as the non-fiction book for the month of January… the title, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction, basically says it all; it’s a history of women authors of horror and speculative fiction from Margaret Cavendish on down to the modern day, some of whom I already knew and others I hadn’t heard of, and very few of whom I’ve actually read anything by. Kroger & Anderson are engaging guides, though I wish the book had been a bit longer and more detailed, but they do a solid job within the limits I presume the publisher imposed on them. At any rate, I’ve now got a few I should check out, and I think that once I finish the Woolrich collection I might move on to this book’s companion volume of women Weird Tales writers for my next batch of daily shorts…