A darker shade of noir : new stories of body horror by women writers
Joyce Carol Oates (Editor, Contributor), Aimee Bender (Contributor), Tananarive Due (Contributor), Megan Abbott (Contributor), Lisa Lim (Contributor), Margaret Atwood (Contributor), Lisa Tuttle (Contributor), Aimee LaBrie (Contributor), Raven Leilani (Contributor), Cassandra Khaw (Contributor), Yumi Dineen Shiroma (Contributor), Elizabeth Hand (Contributor), Valerie Martin (Contributor), Sheila Kohler (Contributor), Laurel Hausler (Illustrator)
"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
Print Book, English, 2023
Akashic Books, Brooklyn, NY, 2023