{"product_id":"9781636141374","title":"A Darker Shade of Noir","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing brand-new stories by\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Aimee Bender, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa Lim, Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Raven Leilani, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHILE THE COMMON BELIEF \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eis that \"body horror\" as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the \"quintessential emblem of female body horror.\" In\u003cem\u003e A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, \u003c\/em\u003eOates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\"Should we know nothing of the female monsters of antiquity,\" Oates writes in her introduction to the volume, \"still we would know that body horror in its myriad manifestations speaks most powerfully to women and girls. To be female is to inhabit a body that is by nature vulnerable to forcible invasion, susceptible to impregnation and repeated pregnancies, condemned to suffer childbirth, often in the past early deaths in childbirth and in the aftermath of childbirth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"River Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Akashic Books |  Hardback | Paper over boards |  2023-09-01","offer_id":44230039601407,"sku":"9781636141374","price":44.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3dd58348-bd4b-49ad-8066-b2eecd0f9d89.jpg?v=1692990423","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781636141374","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}