Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger discuss Horror and Speculative Fiction   Interview Summary Check the book out here https://amzn.to/31nsZDK 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 Contact Information For more “Full Contact Nerd” please follow me at crisalvarez.com, on Facebook at CrisAlvarezFCN, on youtube at Cris Alvarez on twitter @CrisAlvarezFCN, on Instagram @crisalvarezscifi, and on