Love this podcast?

Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature.

It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment.

Just click the link in the show description to support now.

Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep.

It's time to face your darkest fears.

This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, Children of the Night, and welcome.

This is fiction editor Meredith Morganstern.

I'm excited to bring you tales to terrifies Women in Horror Month 2024 with a celebration of women in horror podcasting.

The ladies you'll meet this month are all fascinating contributors to the horror dialogue. I'm a personal fan of each one of these podcasts and chose them specifically for how much I love them and what they do for the horror community.

So, whether you like horror movies, books, short stories, or all of the above, like me, keep listening.

We'll kick things off this month with a podcast that never ceases to add yet more titles to my already massive to read list, Monster She Wrote. If that name sounds familiar,

it's because the podcast is a tentacle-like extension of the 2019 book of the same name.

The book aims to spotlight, and I quote,

the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales,

from Frankenstein to the haunting of Hillhouse and beyond, end quote.

The podcast is hosted by the book's authors.

Doctors Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson, both lifelong horror fans.

Lisa and Mel have my dream job, studying, writing, and teaching horror for a living.

But Monster She Wrote isn't just another book review podcast or list of required reading.

Lisa and Mel are both well-versed in the history of women writing horror literature and it shows.

These two friends have created a podcast for those of us who are ready to dive deep, deep, and even deeper, to rediscover the women whose names may have been lost or forgotten to time.

...