Consorting with the Shadow:: Phantasms and the Dark Side of Female Consciousness

by Alison Armstrong

Incorporating essays, short stories, film and book analyses, Consorting with the Shadow examines the psychological bond between women and the archetypal creatures of imagination, the vampires, shape-shifters, and other monsters we fear, love, and wish to emulate.

Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2019

About the author

Alison Armstrong is the author of three literary horror novels (Revenance, Toxicosis) and Dark Visitations), a novella (Vigil and Other Writings), and a collection of writings addressing women and horror archetypes (Consorting with the Shadow: Phantasms and the Dark Side of Female Consciousness). She is also the co-editor of Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Literature and has contributed two writings to that anthology. Her work focuses on inner terror, stealthily lurking, solipsistic dread and nightmare flash epiphanies. Having obtained a Master of Arts in English, she has taught composition and literature at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI and Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. In addition to her novels and novella (available on Amazon), she has had writings published in The Sirens Call and two horror anthologies. Further information on her writings is available on her Web site, https://horrorvacui.us/ , and on her Facebook page for the novels Revenance and Toxicosis: https://www.facebook.com/RevenancebyA...


(Please note: I am NOT the same author as the Alison Armstrong who wrote Child and the Machine, Understanding Women, Understanding Partnership, and The Queen's Code. That is a different author. I am the author of Toxicosis, Revenance, Consorting with the Shadow: Phantasms and the Dark Side of Female Consciousness, and Vigil and Other Writings, only those four books so far.