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Overview: 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 in the most fascinating of ways.
"Should we know nothing of the female monsters of antiquity," Oates writes in her introduction to the volume, "still we would know that body horror in its myriad manifestations speaks most powerfully to women and girls. To be female is to inhabit a body that is by nature vulnerable to forcible invasion, susceptible to impregnation and repeated pregnancies, condemned to suffer childbirth, often in the past early deaths in childbirth and in the aftermath of childbirth."
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Horror
Contents:
Part I: You’ve Created a Monster
Frank Jones by Aimee Bender
Dancing by Tananarive Due
Scarlet Ribbons by Megan Abbott
Malena by Joanna Margaret
Dancing with Mirrors by Lisa Lim
Part II: Morbid Anatomy
Metempsychosis, or The Journey of the Soul by Margaret Atwood
Concealed Carry by Lisa Tuttle
Gross Anatomy by Aimee LaBrie
Breathing Exercise by Raven Leilani
Muzzle by Cassandra Khaw
Her Heart May Fail Her by Yumi Dineen Shiroma
Part III: Out of Body, Out of Time
The Chair of Tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853) by Joyce Carol Oates
The Seventh Bride, or Female Curiosity by Elizabeth Hand
Nemesis by Valerie Martin
Sydney by Sheila Kohler
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