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Medusa's Daughters by Theodora Goss

“The witchy women are Medusa’s daughters indeed—their gaze kills. But rather than sending heroes to slay them, the writers of this collection celebrate the deadliness of these femmes fatales.” After a period of decline, Gothic literature underwent a revival at the end of the 1800s. As the century turned, women writers such as Vernon Lee, Mary Coleridge, and Rosamund Mariott Watson left an indelible mark on fantasy and horror literature. Like Medusa herself, their poetry and short stories embody the very essence of magic and monstrosity. Curated and annotated by award-winning fantasy author and Victorianist Theodora Goss, this collection of rare and strange gems serves as a tantalizing sampler of work by fin-de-siècle women writers, whose legacy still echoes in the speculative fiction we know and love today.

“Evocative of the legend of Medusa, the mirrors perfectly capture the mood of this collection as women writers tell of their evils, desires, and dreams through the lenses of fantasy and horror”—Booklist


"Goss has gathered a collection of strengths: gothic tales of women, by women, some of which had been lost to time and forgetting... creating a gothic landscape that is at once timeless and timely, filled with brilliant, angry, determined women who leap right off the page."—Fran Wilde, Nebula-winning author of Updraft 


 "Medusa’s Daughters is a sinister Gothic delight, full of unrepentant witches, ghosts, dryads, and changelings. Goss is an expert guide to the strange codes of fin-de-siècle patriarchy and the bold, monstrous women who defied them." —Barbara Barrow, author of An Unclean Place and The Quelling

Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning author of the short story and poetry collections In the Forest of Forgetting (2006), Songs for Ophelia (2014), and Snow White Learns Witchcraft (2019), as well as novella The Thorn and the Blossom (2012), debut novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017), and sequels European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (2018) and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (2019). She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Visit her at theodoragoss.com.
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ISBN 13 9781941360361
ISBN 10 194136036X
Title Medusa's Daughters
Author Theodora Goss
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Lanternfish Press
Year published 2020-05-14
Number of pages 336
Prizes Winner of Foreword INDIES in Anthology category 2020
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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