Short stories & horror aren‘t something I seek out, but I did seek this book out. In retrospect, I should have gotten a physical copy, because illustrated books are super cool.
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Man-Made Monsters | 
Short stories & horror aren‘t something I seek out, but I did seek this book out. In retrospect, I should have gotten a physical copy, because illustrated books are super cool.
pick18 loosely interconnected stories touch on incidents across 200 years in a Cherokee family—beginning in 1839 & ending in 2039. Each one has a monstrous or horror element (vampire, werewolf, medical experimentation, ghosts, zombies, deer woman or other supernatural creatures). Author Andrea Rogers is queer & Cherokee. Her bracing stories have queer characters & address Indigenous issues like forced relocation, residential schools & MMIW. #YA
Whilst the queer monster trope has been used to demonise LGBTQ+ people, there is the inverse tendency for queer audiences to sympathise more with the monster than the supposed protagonists. -Kiera Johnson in Isis
https://isismagazine.org.uk/2021/08/the-big-queer-monster/
I‘ve read some wonderful queer fiction that illustrates this point.
Reading the tagged book brought to mind other writings by Indigenous authors who incorporated elements of horror.
When genocide is what you‘re up against, you regret nothing.
pickThis is a book of linked short stories following a Cherokee family across nearly 200 years with literal monsters (vampires, zombies, etc) and the use of monsters as metaphor for colonization. It‘s really good and the physical book is just gorgeous, including illustrations at the beginning of each story.
