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October Focus on Horror: Katrina Monroe
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October Focus on Horror: Katrina Monroe
Created by Bob Helmbrecht, collection development librarian
Our Focus on Horror Month author for today is Katrina Monroe.
The author’s debut novel "They Drown Our Daughters" was published in 2022. Described by the publisher as “part queer modern gothic, part ghost story,” it follows the story of a young woman going through a divorce who returns with her daughter to her childhood home on the Pacific coast. The women of the house seem to have been cursed for seven generations, however, and she must deal with a malevolent dark force to break the curse and save herself and her daughter. Author Jennifer McMahon said of the book: "Monroe has crafted an atmospheric debut that slips effortlessly between generations of mothers and daughters, exploring what it means to be cursed and haunted, and how far we'll go to protect the ones we love."
Monroe’s next book was "Graveyard of Lost Children." From the publisher’s description: "At four months old, Olivia Dahl was almost murdered. Driven by haunting visions, her mother became obsessed with the idea that Olivia was a changeling, and that the only way to get her real baby back was to make a trade with the dead women living at the bottom of the well. Now Olivia is ready to give birth to a daughter of her own…and for the first time, she hears the women whispering." Rachel Harrison described the book as "a bonafide page-tuner that will have your heart racing and breaking, that will linger long after the final chapter. Magnificent."
"Through the Midnight Door" is Monroe's most recent book. A literary haunted house novel, in which three young sisters exploring an abandoned house encounter unspeakable terrors. Years later, one of the sisters apparently commits suicide in the house, and the others must struggle to deal with their memories before being destroyed as well. Layne Fargo called this one a "gorgeously realized, deeply affecting horror story about sisterhood, secrets, and all the things that can haunt someone."
Check out a book by Katrina Monroe today!