Fist Of The Spider Woman

Tales Of Fear And Queer Desire

Amber Dawn

Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even vampy, powerful female villains, such as the classic noir “spider women,” use their sexual prowess to seduce and overwhelm married men. Fist of the Spider Woman is a revelatory anthology of horror stories by queer and transgressive women and others that disrupts reality as queer women know it, instilling both fear and arousal while turning traditional horror iconography on its head.

In this collection, horror (including gothic, noir, and speculative writing) is defined as that which both titillates and terrorizes, forcing readers to confront who they are. Kristya Dunnion’s ‘Homeland’ reveals the horrors that lurk on your average night in a lesbian bar; Elizabeth Bachinsky’s “Postulation on the Violent Works of the Marquis de Sade” is a response to Sade from a feminist (yet kinky) perspective; and Amber Dawn’s “Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental” is a paranormal fantasia about urban gentrification, set in a house rented by lesbians on the eve that it is sold to new owners.

Subversive, witty, sexy–and scary–Fist of the Spider Woman poses two questions: “What do queer women fear the most?” and “What do queer women desire the most?”

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Details

ISBN	9781551522517
Genre	Anthology – Fiction; Speculative Fiction
Copyright Date	2009
Publication Date	01-Apr-09
Publisher	Arsenal Pulp Press
Editor	Amber Dawn
Format	Trade Paperback
No. of Pages	192
Notes	Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Language	English
Rating	Good
Editor	Amber Dawn
Paper Type	Electronic Format Available
Subject	Literary Collections
BookID	4049

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Fist Of The Spider Woman by Amber Dawn