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Cover art for Thin Places by Kay Chronister. Image description: A veiled woman stands alone in a darkening room. Cover art by Stephen Mackey. Cover design by Vince Haig.
You won’t want to miss this haunting debut collection. Thin Places by Kay Chronister available now from Undertow Publications.
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Guest contributor M. Shaw reviews Roupenian’s studies in feminist horror.
Read moreSarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X radically disassembles womanhood into its surreal parts.
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Whitney Scharer’s historical fiction The Age of Light is a sumptuous look into photographer and artist Lee Miller’s relationship with Man Ray. Set in Paris in the early 1930’s, this novel does a beautiful job of giving Lee Miller a strong, clear voice during her formative years as a artist.
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Yes, you can turn them into pigs, but there are so many other situations women find themselves in and such a variety of possible responses. Gods and Heroes, trigger warning: not all of them act like gentlemen.
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River Tam, not using her words in Firefly.
Wild, raging girls seem to be everywhere these days, from movies like Logan to books like The Girl with All the Gifts.
Read moreLidia Yuknavitch's dystopian fever dream, reviewed.
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Steven Millhauser's short story "Phantoms” invites readers to consider the phantoms that haunt them. Jon considers his phantoms and how they expose his complicity in perpetuating prejudice against trans people.
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Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab
After a politically tumultuous 2016, Jon seeks solace in the fantasy worlds of Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab.
Read moreShirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Charles Lambert's The Children's Home both want to know, "Are you my mummy?" (and if you're not, then please tell me where you've stashed her and DON'T mention poison).
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Penelope and the Suitors, painting by John William Waterhouse.
Margaret Atwood takes on consumer culture, gender roles, and cannibalism in The Penelopiad and The Edible Woman
Read moreHow the abortion debates of the 20th century delivered a new Gothic aesthetic
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