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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger interview about Horror and Speculative Fiction – “Monster She Wrote” (Quirk Books, 2019)

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Melanie Anderson / Lisa Kroger horror and speculative fiction

Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger discuss Horror and Speculative Fiction

 

Interview Summary

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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger have both extensively studied speculative and horror fiction. They’ve written a few books together on the subject and they recently won the 2020 Locus Award for non-fiction for Monster She Wrote which explores female authors of horror and speculative fiction.  They also won a Bram Stoker award for the book. We spoke about the subject and the book writing process.

0:41 – Lisa talks about how she and Melanie wrote a book on female horror writers.

2:02 – Melanie talks about previous projects they did together on ghosts and spectrality.

3:48 – Melanie talks about they structured the book.

6:36 – Lisa talks about their struggle to cover a broad scope of literary history.

8:48 – Melanie talks about female use of pseudonyms in horror fiction.

11:48 – Lisa talks about women not having to hide their identities.

14:51 – Lisa and Melanie talk about the nationalities of the women they included in the book.

16: 45 – Lisa talks about 19th century female horror literature.

19:11 – Melanie talks about 19th century ghost stories and why so many female writers wrote horror.

24:00 – Lisa talks about female writers mixing violence, gore, and sex

27:45 – Melanie talks about gore in horror.

32:47 – Lisa talks about a scandalous Margaret Cavendish story she really likes.

35:30 – Melanie talks about author Dion Fortune.

37:28 – Melanie talks about how religion affected the writing these women did. Lisa talks more about Manfrone.

41:39 – Melanie talks about she did the research for the work.

44:55 – Lisa talks about how she added to her horror reading list and how some writers seem to have disappeared completely.

48:28 – Lisa talks about horror comic books.

49:47 – Melanie talks about the joy these authors took in their work.

53:36 – Lisa talks about the writers who she felt touched by.

56:26 – Melanie talks about Gertrude Barrows Bennett and Jewelle Gomez.

58:59 – Lisa talks about the Gilda stories.

1:01:20 – Lisa and Melanie talk about writing the book and getting it published.

1:07:48 – Lisa is at lisakroger.com and on twitter @lbkroger and on instagram @lisa_kroger. Their podcast is knowfearcast and monster she wrote podcast and @monsterwrote on social media.

1:09:25 – Melnaie is at melanieranderson.com and on instagram @melanieranderson7.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/31nsZDK

https://www.quirkbooks.com/book/monster-she-wrote

http://www.lisakroger.com/

https://melanieranderson.com/

http://www.knowfearcast.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monster-she-wrote-podcast/id1498646080

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Guests: Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger

Host: Cris Alvarez

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Gothic film history – “Gothic Film” (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) – Richard Hand and Jay McRoy interview

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Richard Hand and Jay McRoy have both been studying horror and gothic for many years. They recently co-edited a book of essays on Gothic Film and I got to speak to the both of them about the gothic, the book, and the editorial and publishing process.

0:40 – Richard talks about his interest in Gothic film and horror.

3:48 – Jay talks about reading horror literature when he was a little kid.

5:11 – Richard and Jay talk about how the book looks at a wide span of how horror is adapted.

7:49 – Jay talks about an American take on the gothic.

13:58 – Richard and Jay discuss Gothic and Japanese anime.

15:40 – Richard talks about manga writing.

16:46 – Richard and Jay talk about Lovecraft and the Gothic.

19:08 – Jay talks about Lovecraft movies and the Gothic.

22:23 – Richard talks about prime examples of Gothic films.

24:19 – Jay talks about the translation of Gothic stories from word to film.

27:39 – We discuss the gothic feel to the Sopranos.

31:56 – They talk about the range of topics the book covers.

35:42 – They discuss Alien and Gothic film in space.

39:06 – They discuss the strangest combination of gothic with another setting.

41:22 – Jay talks about the gothic in spongebob squarepants and Sesame Street.

43:15 – Richard talks about the use of Gothic structure in documentaries.

44:30 – Richard and Jay talk about Ren and Stimpy and the Gothic.

46:19 – Richard talks about his favorite Gothic films.

48:31 – Jay talks about his enjoyment of Nosferatu films.

50:22 – They discuss how they access the films the book mentions.

53:26 – Richard goes into detail about the Dracula story.

54:21 – Jay talks about how well the essays blend.

55:14 – They talk about the editorial process and the publishing process.

59:01 – Richard can be found on his webpage on the University of East Anglia website and Jay has a website www.the jaymcroy.com.

 

Links of interest

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https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-gothic-film.html

https://www.thejaymcroy.com/

https://people.uea.ac.uk/r_hand

 

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Guests: Richard Hand and Jay McRoy

Host: Cris Alvarez

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Horror fiction history – “Horror Fiction in the 20th Century” (Praeger, 2020) – Jess Nevins interview

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Jess Nevins regularly writes on genre subjects. He recently wrote a book on horror fiction in the 20th century. We discussed the book and horror fiction across the world.

0:38 – Jess talks about how he got into horror fiction.

2:40 – Jess talks about non-English horror publishers.

3:49 – Jess talks about how he breaks down the book. He explores both English and non-English horror.

7:41 – Jess talks about the lineage of non-English horror.

11:38 – Jess talks about magic realism. He also talks about Asian horror literature.

13:28 – Jess talks about horrific human beings versus horrific monsters.

15:55 – Jess talks about categorizing horror and discovering new authors.

18:01 – Jess talks about Chinese and Russian horror.

19:54 – Jess talks about horror from India.

21:29 – Jess talks about horror for children versus adults.

23:14 – Jess talks about horror and national crisis.

25:41 – Jess talks about the most important horror writers.

28:12 – Jess talks about horror comics.

29:26 – Jess talks about sex in horror.

32:55 – Jess talks about sci-fi and horror.

35:54 – Jess talks about horror antagonists and the monster versus no monster debate.

37:38 – Jess goes into detail about the research for the book.

42:45 – Jess talks discovering new books during the research process.

46:56 – Jess talks about female horror writers.

51:44 – Jess talks about horror film and literature.

1:00:08 – Jess is on jessnevins.com and on twitter @jessnevins and on facebook as Jess Nevins.

 

Links of interest

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http://jessnevins.com/frontpage.html

https://twitter.com/jessnevins

 

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Guests: Jess Nevins

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: horror history, victoriana, horror, South Africa, Poe, Pierce, magic realism, Indian horror, Lovecraft, Gothics, feminist horror, children’s lietarure, Soviet Union literature, Lovecraft, Mathieson, Bradbury, manga, EC, comics, science fiction, worldcat, science fiction, transexual horror, Brazilian horror, ghost stories, Vikings, role playing game

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