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A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir) by Joyce Carol Oates; Margaret Atwood; Tananarive Due; Megan Abbott; Aimee Bender; Cassandra Khaw; Lisa Lim; Elizabeth Hand; Valerie Martin; Raven Leilani; Sheila Kohler; Joanna Margaret; Lisa Tuttle; Aimee LaBrie; Yumi Dineen Shiroma is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir) about?
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.Featuring brand-new stories by: Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Aimee Bender, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa Lim, Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Raven Leilani, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.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 Noir: 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...
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates; Margaret Atwood; Tananarive Due; Megan Abbott; Aimee Bender; Cassandra Khaw; Lisa Lim; Elizabeth Hand; Valerie Martin; Raven Leilani; Sheila Kohler; Joanna Margaret; Lisa Tuttle; Aimee LaBrie; Yumi Dineen Shiroma
- Publisher
- Akashic Books, Ltd.
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781636141381
- Subjects
- Short Stories, Fiction, Horror
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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