La Ligue des Écrivaines Extraordinaires : une série féministe où la réalité affronte la fiction

La Ligue des Écrivaines Extraordinaires is a literary project by Askabak editions that stages confrontations between real female authors and monsters from fantastic literature in novellas. Originally launched under Les Saisons de l’étrange, the series began by featuring founding authors of gothic literature like Mary Shelley and the Brontë sisters facing iconic monsters such as Frankenstein and Carmilla. A second season introduced more recent writers including Virginia Woolf and Selma Lagerlöf. All novels are written by women to maintain thematic consistency. The third season comprises five new original novels by authors Isabelle Bauthian, Sarah Buschmann, Nelly Chadour, Mélanie Fievet, and Sushina Lagouje, featuring lesser-known female writers confronting figures like Herbert West, the Invisible Man, and Dorian Gray. The project combines love for popular literature and imagination with a secret society of monster-hunting women, serving as activism against women’s invisibility in literature. The complete volume features cover art by Margaux Saltel, with previous episodes collected in an omnibus with cover by Anne-Perrine Couët.

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