Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

Files

File List

Full text of this paper is not available in the ETD Center. Copies may be available for inter-library loan from Bowling Green State University or may be available for purchase from Proquest/UMI

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

The Adirondack Monsters Guide

McConnell, Chloe
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679774413297726

Abstract Details

2023, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing/Fiction.
The Adirondack Monsters Guide is a collection of short stories that fill a hole in American literature. In other mountainous regions throughout the United States, monsters roam and their stories fill the local lore. Regional lore saturates the cultures and the reach of their stories spread across the continent. Bigfoot roams the Rockies and Appalachia hosts ghosts and monsters alike. This collection gives the same attention and care to the oddness within the Adirondacks that other mountainous regions receive. The Adirondack Monsters Guide was inspired both by local historical sources and collections of other speculative fiction. The Adirondack Monsters Guide takes interest in genres like fabulism, gothic, and the uncanny. The stories within this collection are reminiscent of other speculative authors including Shirley Jackson, Steven Millhauser, Kelly Link, and George Saunders. Like its predecessors, this collection wields the speculative genre for thematic importance and as a means of social commentary. The Adirondack Monsters Guide uses genre conventions of ghosts and monsters to discuss societal issues like class, gender, and grief while also examining the human condition. In this collection, the weight of gender expectations are a burning ghost ship and grief is a monstrous moose. The Adirondack Monsters Guide is a collection that embraces oddness across multiple speculative genres and invites readers to imagine what other creatures might exist up in those mountains.
Lawrence Coates, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Reema Rajbanshi, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Fine Arts
monsters; ghosts; feminism; class; mountians; Adirondacks

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • McConnell, C. (2023). The Adirondack Monsters Guide [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679774413297726

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McConnell, Chloe. The Adirondack Monsters Guide. 2023. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679774413297726.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McConnell, Chloe. "The Adirondack Monsters Guide." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679774413297726

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

bgsu1679774413297726
Release 3.2.12