Republished this year by Valancourt books, Rosalind’s Ashe’s 1976 gothic thriller Moths is a spine-chilling tale of supernatural seduction featuring a femme fatale who lures men to their deaths like lepidoptera to a flame. Gothic lit expert Lisa B. Kröger joins us to discuss Ashe’s knack for channeling female rage in a novel that’s been compared to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mothsby Rosalind Ashe
Monster, She Wrote by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
Original 1976 cover art of Moths
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 58 on Monster, She Wrote with Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 240 on Angela Carter
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Hurricane Wake by Rosalind Ashe
Literary Houses by Rosalind Ashe
Dark Runner by Rosalind Ashe
Midnight Movieclip
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