Miss Diana Hyde
Miss Beatrice Rappaccini
Miss Catherine Moreau
Miss Justine Frankenstein
Miss Lucinda Van Helsing
Miss Lydia Raymond
SUPPORTERS:
Mrs. Irene Norton
Miss Laura Jennings
Carmilla, Countess Karnstein
Wilhelmina, Countess Dracula
Victoria Regina
Dear Reader:
I hope you have enjoyed this history of how we came together, we monsters. If you have begun with this book, I advise you to purchase volumes I and II of the Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club—only thus can you learn how Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, Justine, Lucinda, and Alice came to live together as a family of sorts. And if you have read all these volumes, you may also wish to purchase one of my other books published by Longmans, Green, and Co., only two shillings each, available at all reputable booksellers and also in train stations throughout England: The Mysteries of Astarte
The Adventures of Rick Chambers
Rick Chambers and Astarte
Rick Chambers on Venus
Invasion of the Cat Women
The Death of Astarte
The Resurrection of Astarte
Rick Chambers, Jr. in the Caverns of Doom My latest novel, Astarte and the Idol of Gold, will be available this spring for the same very reasonable price. American readers are urged to purchase authorized copies from Scribner’s Sons.
Respectfully,
Catherine Moreau
Dear Reader: I hope you have enjoyed this history of how we came together, we monsters. If you have begun with this book, I advise you to purchase volumes I and II of the Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club—only thus can you learn how Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, Justine, Lucinda, and Alice came to live together as a family of sorts. And if you have read all these volumes, you may also wish to purchase one of my other books published by Longmans, Green, and Co., only two shillings each, available at all reputable booksellers and also in train stations throughout England: The Mysteries of Astarte
The Adventures of Rick Chambers Rick Chambers and Astarte Rick Chambers on Venus
Invasion of the Cat Women The Death of Astarte
The Resurrection of Astarte Rick Chambers, Jr. in the Caverns of Doom My latest novel, Astarte and the Idol of Gold, will be available this spring for the same very reasonable price. American readers are urged to purchase authorized copies from Scribner’s Sons.
Respectfully,
Catherine Moreau
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
One of the great pleasures of following the members of the Athena Club on their adventures has been visiting all sorts of magical places, such as St. Michael’s Mount off the coast of Cornwall. I would like to thank all the guides who work on the island and in the castle for so patiently answering my questions when I went on the tour three times in a row and wandered around plotting fight scenes in those elegant rooms. A general thanks to everyone who helped me in London, Cornwall, and Budapest, whether they knew they were helping or not, and a special thanks to Bernhard Stäber and Aleksandra Kasztalska for helping with German and Polish translations, respectively. Any mistakes in translations or historical details are of course my own. Thank you once again to everyone at Barry Goldblatt Literary, especially my agent Barry Goldblatt, who encouraged me to write this series in the first place, and Patricia Ready, who always answers my panicked questions with humor and patience. An enormous thanks goes to my editor, Navah Wolfe, who believed in this group of unusual young women and guided me with endless patience and insight as I tried to write their stories to the best of my ability. Thanks also to the whole crew at Saga Press, including Bridget Madsen, Krista Vossen, Elizabeth Blake-Linn, Alysha Bullock, Caroline Pallotta, Mike Kwan, and Madison Penico without whom this book would not be one, and LJ Jackson, who coordinated publicity, bringing it to the attention of readers like you. Artist Lisa Perrin captured the spirit of the Athena Club so perfectly on its cover, and I’m most grateful. My biggest thanks goes, as always, to my daughter, Ophelia, who read the books first. Her laughter and attention were the best compliment I could receive. And finally, thank you, yes you, who have made it this far. I hope you enjoyed spending time with Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, Justine, Lucinda, and little Alice—who learned, in the end, that even a kitchen maid can be a heroine. I know they all enjoyed spending time with you and would love to have you over for tea at 11 Park Terrace the next time you’re in the vicinity. Mrs. Poole is already baking a treacle tart…
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THEODORA GOSS is the World Fantasy and Locus Award–winning author of the short story and poetry collections In the Forest of Forgetting, Songs for Ophelia, and Snow White Learns Witchcraft, as well as the novella The Thorn and the Blossom and the novels The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has been translated into twelve languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Visit her at TheodoraGoss.com.
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