Folk Horror

She Made Herself a Monster

by Anna Kovatcheva

In nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a fraudulent vampire slayer and a determined teenage girl forge an unlikely alliance to create a monster capable of destroying their inner demons. Anna Kovatcheva explores how women transform their trauma into power, even when that power takes monstrous form.

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