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Women Who Love Monsters

by Lori Perkins
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Hollywood has thrilled—and titillated—audiences with tales of women who love monsters since King Kong and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Our love affair with the ultimate "others” continued as we made the acquaintances of Barnabas Collins, Swamp Thing, the Vampire Lestat, Hellboy, and Shrek. Most recently, the genre was celebrated and, ultimately, validated when The Shape of Water won the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture—a rare nod to the power and popularity of paranormal romance story-telling.

It should come as no surprise that when ViceTV decided to do an episode on "Monsters Fantasies,” they came to Riverdale Avenue Books to interview some of those authors in an episode that aired in March 2018.

 

Women Who Love Monsters

With Stories by

Cecilia Tan * Jamie K. Schmidt * Laura Antoniou * Katherine Ramsland* Trinity Blacio* Nathan Pettigrew * j. Gambardella * Truth Venson * CB Archer * Jennifer Williams * Stanley B. Webb * Amy Stilgenbauer * Cynthia Ward


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Brooke Hudson
1/25/2019

This anthology pulls together a variety of works from a number of different authors to explore the ideas of what draws so many women to the "monster" . The editor discusses stories from King Kong to the Swamp Thing, pointing out that women have been falling for "beasts" in literature and films for ages. The stories in this book offer various takes on this theme. Some are short stories, contained entirely here, others are a chapter or segment from a longer work, available (or not, in one case) elsewhere in its entirety. I personally found the short stories more successful, and several had me seeking out the authors other work. Almost all the stories have some sex or sometimes a lot of sex in them; several of the stories would definitely be classified as erotica. Some are creepy, some are clever, some are a little funny...I think if you are a fan of the beauty and the beast genre (and for beast, it can be vampire, or werewolf, or swamp thing or alien or....) you will enjoy some, if not all, of the stories in this anthologies. There were only a couple I didn't care for, but I think that just goes to personal taste. All were well written and the entire anthology is well edited. When it's piece culled from a longer book, the author makes it clear what the source material is, so you can hunt it down if you are so inclined. (Which in one case, I am!)


Kri Wood
11/26/2018

A great book with many little stories from different authors. A few stories I was drawn to more than others while some I just did not care for. A few I hope will become actual novels like The Beast, The Vampire's Heart, The Ripper Letter. This book did a wonderful job with listing the stories by which author so you can easily navigate to whom you wanted to read or just read from cover to cover. Very short excerpts, stories, chapters of the book, and so forth that kept things on their toes but these 13 women sure stepped out of their comfort zone to see what it is like to love a monster.


Sarah Clay
9/27/2018

A good collection of samples, a great way to find new authors to read. I liked a couple more than the others, but overall they were all pretty good.


Amy Storch
9/5/2018

Women Who Love Monsters is a collection of 13 examples of women stepping out of their comfort zone, and their species, to see if the ....grass is greener on the other side. I found myself reading the whole thing at once. There are some very short excerpts, short stories, chapters of books, etc. You never know what to expect when beginning a new title. Speaking of titles, the book has them all listed in several locations along with the name of each author, to make it easy to move around in the book if you choose. I appreciate that greatly from having experience with the lack of a way to easily navigate. My favorite entries were The Ripper Letter by Katherine Ramsland, After Hours on Bourbon Street by Trinity Blacio, and The Vampire's Heart by CB Archer.


Katie Hansen
9/5/2018

I related so well to this book because it really captured my focus and made me fall in love with the main characters. I recommend that you check out this book as well as this author.

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Lori Perkins

Lori Perkins is the editor/author of 25 erotic romance anthologies including the first zombie romance short story collection, HUNGRY FOR YOUR LOVE, as well as the anthology 50 WRITERS ON 50 SHADES OF GREY, which looks at the erotic romance phenom from 50 points of view,  She is the founder of the L. Perkins Literary Agency, and a former adjunct professor of journalism at NYU. She lives in New York City.

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