268. Rosalind Ashe — Moths with Lisa B. Kröger

Republished this year by Valancourt books, Rosalind’s Ashe’s 1976 gothic thriller Mothsis 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:

Moths by 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

Lisa Tuttle

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Hurricane Wake by Rosalind Ashe

Literary Houses by Rosalind Ashe

Dark Runner by Rosalind Ashe