What if the most unsettling women in Gothic fiction aren't the victims, but the ones who refuse to be one?

In Episode 11, Annelise digs into Female Gothic and the writers who used the genre to explore something far more complicated than haunted houses and helpless heroines: power, complicity, and survival. From Daphne du Maurier's magnetic, unresolvable Rebecca and Rachel to Barbara Baynton's uneasy portrait of femininity in Squeaker's Mate, this episode asks what happens when women in Gothic fiction stop fitting the role they're assigned, and what it means when some women become enforcers of the very systems that harmed them.

Plus, Annelise takes a look at how these ideas shaped Lenora and Cassia in her own Southern Gothic novel, All the River Took.

And if you write gothic fiction or you want to, Annelise's structural guides and workbooks are over at Gothic Writing Studio on Etsy. Serious tools for serious writers.

Gothic Writing Studio — structural guides and workbooks for serious gothic fiction writers:⁠ www.etsy.com/shop/GothicWritingStudio⁠

Or a how to write Gothic Fiction book on Amazon: Writing Gothic Fiction — From Classic Castles to Southern Shadows: https://a.co/d/00hF844E