Consorting with the Shadow: Phantasms and the Dark Side of Female Consciousness

by Alison Armstrong

Overview

Incorporating essays,short stories, film and book analyses, Consorting with the Shadow examines the psychological bond between women and the archetypal creatures of imagination, the vampires, shapeshifters, and other monsters we fear, love, and wish to emulate.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166950222
Publisher:	Alison Armstrong
Publication date:	06/30/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	399 KB

About the Author

Alison Armstrong is the author of two literary horror novels (Revenance and Toxicosis), a novella (Vigil and Other Writings), and a collection of writings addressing women and horror archetypes (Consorting with the Shadow: Phantasms and the Dark Side of Female Consciousness). Her work focuses on inner terror, stealthily lurking, solipsistic dread and nightmare flash epiphanies. Having obtained a Master of Arts in English, she has taught composition and literature at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI and Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. In addition to her novels and novella, she has had writings published in The Sirens Call  as well as the horror anthologies  Book of Bones. and From the Cradle to the Grave. Further information on her writings is available on her Web site, https://horrorvacui.us/ , and on her Facebook page for the novels  Revenance and Toxicosis.