The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The title “We Shall Be Monsters” is written at the top in large white capitals. The editor’s name “Derek Newman-Stille” is written below this in smaller white writing. The names of the contributors are written at the bottom of the cover in tiny white writing. The background art looks like it is made of various black and grey patches of fabric stitched together with white thread. In lower centre of the cover, art of an anatomically correct heart that appears to be stitched together with black thread. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Gore
• Death- TBC
• Colonialism
• TBD*

*This content warning list is incomplete. You can help fill it out by commenting any warnings you are aware of.

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Summary:

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s genre-changing book Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus helped to shape the genres of science fiction and horror, and helped to articulate new forms for women’s writing. It also helped us to think about the figure of the outsider, to question medical power, to question ideas of “normal,” and to think about what we mean by the word “monster.”

Derek Newman-Stille has teamed up with Renaissance Press to celebrate Frankenstein’s 200th birthday by creating a book that explores Frankenstein stories from new and exciting angles and perspectives.

We Shall Be Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Two Centuries On features a broad range of fiction stories by authors from around the world, ranging from direct interactions with Shelley’s texts to explorations of the stitched, assembled body and narrative experiments in monstrous creations. We Shall Be Monsters collects explorations of disability, queer and trans identity, and ideas of race and colonialism.

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Notes:

This book was published in ebook format in 2018. It was published in paperback format in 2019.

This anthology was created in celebration of the 200th anniversay of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.

A list of people who contributed to this anthology:

• Derek Newman-Stille
• Day Al-Mohamed
• Lena Ng
• Ashley Caranto Morford
• Cait Gordon
• J.F. Garrard
• Andrew Wilmot
• Evelyn Deshane
• D. Simon Turner
• Kaitlin Tremblay
• Lisa Carreiro
• Eric Choi
• Joseph McGinty
• Jennifer Lee Rossman
• Randall G. Arnold
• Alex Acks
• K.C. Grifant
• Halli Lilburn
• Kev Harrison
• Corey Redekop
• Arianna Verbree
• Max D. Stanton
• Victoria K. Martin
• Priya Sridhar
• Liam Hogan
• Joshua Bartolome
• A.G.A. Wilmot

There is a blog: weshallbemonsters.wordpress.com

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Archivist Comments:

I have had such a difficult time trying to find information on this book and I don’t know why. I don’t normally post a book until I can find out more information that even vaguely points to the disability representation in it but I just. I can’t! Which is a shame, because this sounds like it’s right up my alley. I’m going to keep an eye on it and and hopefully come back to it at some point.

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