MEDUSA'S DAUGHTERS is a 2020 Foreword INDIES Award Winner

We're honored to announce that Medusa’s Daughters, edited by award-winning author Theodora Goss, is the 2020 Gold Award winner in the Anthologies category in the Foreword INDIES Awards.

For this year’s competition, over 2,100 entries were submitted in 55 categories, with Foreword’s editors choosing approximately 9 finalists per genre. Those finalists were then delivered to individual librarians and booksellers tasked with picking the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention winners.

Medusa’s Daughters

After a period of decline, Gothic literature underwent a revival at the end of the 1800s. As the century turned, women writers such as Vernon Lee, Mary Coleridge, and Rosamund Mariott Watson left an indelible mark on fantasy and horror literature. Like Medusa herself, their poetry and short stories embody the very essence of magic and monstrosity.

Curated and annotated by award-winning fantasy author and Victorianist Theodora Goss, this collection of rare and strange gems serves as a tantalizing sampler of work by fin-de-siècle women writers, whose legacy still echoes in the speculative fiction we know and love today.

Other Lanternfish Press titles selected as Foreword INDIES Award finalists include The Anatomist’s Tale by Tauno Biltsted, Ship of Fates by Caitlin Chung, and Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely.