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The Monster She Wrote Podcast
Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson, authors of MONSTER, SHE WROTE (Quirk Books), discuss women in the horror genre.
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Interview with Jen Julian
Today, we welcome writer Jen Julian to discuss her book Red Rabbit Ghost.
Jen Julian is a writer from Eastern North Carolina. She holds a PhD in...
Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill
In Elizabeth Hand’s A Haunting on the Hill, Holly Sherwin is living every writer's dream. She has grant money to finish her new play, which she uses t...
Tanith Lee's "Where All Things Perish"
“She looks through water, / She looks through air,
She leaps at the moon / And she looks in.
Give her silver, Give her gold, / And bind...
MSW Classic: "The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson
We are on a summer hiatus, but we will be returning with brand-new episodes soon! Please enjoy this classic episode on "The Summer People" by Shirley...
MSW Classic: "Summer" by Tananarive Due
We are on summer hiatus! So please enjoy this MSW Classic episode on Tanarive Due's "Ghost Summer"
Tananarive Due’s “Summer” (from her story co...
Interview with R. A. Busby (Part 2)
Author of WORDS MADE OF FLESH, the eco-horror YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD, and the Stoker-nominated story “Ten Thousand Crawling Children,” R.A. Busby...
Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games
Every year, two children from one of twelve districts in Panem are chosen to participate in the Hunger Games, where they will fight each other to the...
MSW Classic: R. A. Busby
Please enjoy this re-run of a classic Monster, She Wrote episode.
Author of the novella Corporate Body and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning st...
Interview with Tracy Cross
Tracy Cross is a dealer in dark fiction, her gripping stories featured in a range of podcasts and anthologies. Her debut novel, the gripping "Rootwork...
Reading Banned Books
Banned Books Week (launched in 1982) is normally in September/October, but given the state of things, we thought it was a relevant topic. Buying physi...
MSW Classic: Moths by Rosalind Ashe
We are rerunning the classic episode to celebrate the upcoming release of Moths through Valancourt Books as part of their Monster, She Wrote series. P...
"The End of the Voyage" by Bora Chung
In “The End of the Voyage,” a short story in Bora Chung’s collection Your Utopia , a group escapes a pandemic here on Earth by jumping into a spaceshi...
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
In So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison, Sloane Parker HATES birthday celebrations, but her husband and best friend Naomi conspire to give Sloane a weekend a...
Linghun by Ai Jiang
Linghun by Ai Jiang is set in the mysterious HOME, a suburb of Toronto, where the residents live among the ghosts. Winqi, a high school senior, must n...
You'll Like My Mother (film adaptation)
Last episode, we read the Gothic horror You’ll Like My Mother by Naomi A. Hintze, which was recently re-released with Valancourt Books. In it, a pregn...
You'll Like My Mother by Naomi A. Hintze
Pregnant Francesca finds herself a widow at a young age after her husband is sent to Vietnam. Without support from her family, she embarks on a cross-...
MSW Classic: The Woman in Black
Mel and Lisa are busy gearing up for a new season in this new year! In the meantime, enjoy this classic episode of the podcast, perfect for the Gothic...
MSW Classic: Adaptation
Enjoy this classic podcast episode and have a happy and safe holiday season!
NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite boo...
MSW Classic: Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread
Enjoy this classic podcast episode and have a happy and safe holiday season!
NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite boo...
Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley
In Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley, there is a bad place just off a highway in a secluded forest in Kentucky. When a small group made up of geolog...
Interview with Jenny Kiefer
Jenny Kiefer is a debut author, avid rock climber, and Kentucky resident. She also owns and manages Butcher Cabin Books, a horror bookstore in Louisvi...
Halloween Special: Agatha All Along
For Toil and Trouble, our book, we did a deep dive into research of the witch. And since the witch is a mainstay of this time of year, we thought it w...
Christa Carmen's The Daughters of Block Island
In this episode, we are discussing Christa Carmen’s meta Gothic novel The Daughters of Block Island with special guest Crystal O’Leary-Davidson.
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The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson
About The Unmothers: After the death of her husband, journalist Marshall is sent to the small town of Raeford to investigate a clearly ridiculous rumo...
Interview with Leslie J. Anderson
Leslie J. Anderson has spent much of her life riding, training, and caring for horses. Her collection of poetry, An Inheritance of Stone, was nominate...
Joyce Carol Oates's "The Long-Legged Girl"
Joyce Carol Oates’s story “The Long-Legged Girl” (collected in Night-Gaunts) is part horror story, part cozy mystery…after all, the plot of the story...
Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory
Join Mel and Lisa as we discuss Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory. When 12-year-old Robert Stephens is sent to Gracetown School For Boys, a reformatory...
Lora Senf's The Clackity
Join Lisa and Mel as they discuss Lora Senf’s The Clackity. Young Evie lives with her aunt in Blight Harbor–a seemingly quiet small town where everyon...
Announcing Our Bookshop.Org Shop!
We have a bookshop.org shop set up. Now you can shop for all of your favorite horror books by women. You’ll find Lisa's books, Mel’s books, and the b...
Gwendolyn Kiste's "Your Mother's Love is an Apocalypse
Mothers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are good, caring, and loving. And some are a bit more complicated. Sometimes it feels like a mother can be...
Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep
SPOILERS ABOUND! This novel contains a TWIST you don’t want to ruin, so listen at your own risk.
Vesper Wright left home at eighteen to escape...
Tananarive Due's "Summer"
Tananarive Due’s “Summer” (from her story collection Ghost Summer) is set in her fictional town of Gracetown, Florida, where the humid and murky swamp...
Cynthia Pelayo's Forgotten Sisters
Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a big house right on the Chicago river, where they are dealing with the grief following the aftermath of a family trag...
Interview with author Cynthia Pelayo
Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award® winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. She is the author of Children of Chicago,...
Tanith Lee's "Beauty"
If you ever thought to yourself, “I wish Beauty and the Beast had aliens in it,” then today’s story is for you. In her short story “Beauty,” Tanith Le...
Gwendolyn Kiste’s The Haunting of Velkwood
The mysterious Velkwood Vicinity is an occult and paranormal marvel, occupying the interest of scientists and conspiracy theorists alike. But for thre...
Interview with Gwendolyn Kiste
Join Lisa and Mel as we talk with author Gwendolyn Kiste about her newest novel, The Haunting of Velkwood.
Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bra...
Fill Your TBR Pile!
This episode is a little different from our usual format, but we promise you'll love it. It's all about book recommendations and what Mel and Lisa are...
"Shambleau" by C. L. Moore
A rogue adventurer meets a woman with snakes for hair, and he falls under her seductive spell. Luckily, a friend gives our hero a heads up: don’t look...
Kelly Link's "Stone Animals"
Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals” begins with an unspoken question, immediately throwing readers into an ambiguous but nightmarish journey as a family move...