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      <image:title>The Books</image:title>
      <image:caption>Meet women writers who’ve been writing horror and dark speculative fiction since the beginnings of those genres. Winner of the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction and the 2020 Locus Award for Non-Fiction. Available from Quirk Books.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Books</image:title>
      <image:caption>Available from Bloomsbury.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Available from the University of Tennessee Press.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Books</image:title>
      <image:caption>Meet the mystical women and nonbinary people from US history who found strength through the supernatural—and those who are still forging the way today. On the Final Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-fiction. Available from Quirk Books.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Published with University of Delaware Press. Available from Rowman &amp; Littlefield.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Melanie R. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Mississippi. She is an assistant professor of English at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, MS, where she teaches courses in American literature. She researches and writes about the American Gothic and supernatural literature. Her co-authored nonfiction on women and horror has won the Bram Stoker and Locus awards. When she is not writing or teaching, she is one of the hosts of The Know Fear Cast, a podcast about horror and all the things that scare us. She also co-hosts The Monster, She Wrote Podcast, a podcast about women creating in the darker genres.</image:caption>
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