Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Kris Waldherr
5 Myths About Tarot That Storytellers Should Know
Today’s post is excerpted from Tarot for Storytellers: A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives by Kris Waldherr. Published by Muse Publications LLC. I’m a storyteller. Chances are you are too. In fact, I’ll go one step further and state that everyone is a storyteller, even if they’ve never picked up a pen, drawn a picture, or pulled a tarot card, though writers have a special calling as such. Ultimately, it’s human nature to tell stories.
On Storytelling and the Tarot: A Personal Journey by Kris Waldherr - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Kris Waldherr One of my favorite literary touchstones is Dante’s Inferno. The story of the poet’s pilgrimage through the underworld has fed some of my creative projects as an illustrator and writer. The Inferno kicks off with one of the most famous sentences ever set on paper.
Unnatural Creatures
I knew Shelley was haunted by the loss of her mother from puerperal fever just days after giving birth to her but hadn’t connected her preoccupation to the novel that, after 200 years, still haunts our collective imagination. Frankenstein is taught as the first work of science fiction, a cautionary tale about hubris, ambition, and men playing God: the mad scientist vs. the vengeful monster. But at the novel’s heart, my friend said, it’s about a child whose parent abandons him.
The Goddess Tarot: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Campaign Rewards FAQ 2 Community With over a quarter of a million copies in print, The Goddess Tarot is one of the most beloved tarot decks ever created. It uses goddess stories and imagery to update traditional tarot symbolism to create a true celebration of the Divine Feminine. First published in 1998, The Goddess Tarot hasn't had a full color book devoted to its inspiring art and empowering wisdom—until now.
UNNATURAL CREATURES
Barrie Kreinik narrates this reimagining of Mary Shelly's classic novel FRANKENSTEIN. Set in the late eighteenth century, when revolutions are rife in Europe, the story is told through three women in Victor's Frankenstein's life. Kreinik develops a strong persona for his mother, Caroline, who is devoted to her son, the rest of her family, and the less fortunate. One such unfortunate is Elizabeth, who is rescued from poverty and destined to be Victor's wife.
Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women
When I told a friend I was revisiting Frankenstein for inspiration to write about Mary Shelley’s proto-feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, she said, “Oh, that’s the saddest book that’s ever been written.” I knew Shelley was haunted by the loss of her mother from puerperal fever just days after giving birth to her but hadn’t connected her preoccupation to the novel that, after 200 years, still haunts our collective imagination.
Nancy Bilyeau recommends Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women
Great books are timeless, web browsers are not. It looks like your browser is out of date. We do our best to support a wide variety of browsers and devices, but BookBub works best in a modern browser. For help upgrading, check out https://browsehappy.com/. BookBub offers a great personalized experience. Unfortunately, your browser doesn't accept cookies, which limits how good an experience we can provide. For more info on how to enable cookies, check out http://www.whatarecookies.com/.
The Eternal Feminine of The Damned
Imagine this: A nubile dancer named Salome struts before a lustful king. She wields her bejeweled half-dressed body like a weapon. Her desire? To gain the head of John the Baptist, which floats before her as a glowing apparition. Imagine also this: A strong-jawed sphinx bearing the head of a woman and the spotted body of a leopard. Her eyes are slits of ecstatic pleasure as her claws stretch for a rather androgynous-looking bare-chested male. Will she embrace him? Or eat him?
The Past Is Killer: 7 Grisly Reads for Alienist Fans
Dark streets lit only by oily lamps, men in bowler hats checking pocket watches, a gruesome murder scene on the cobblestones. There’s just something about a historical murder mystery that draws you into a world both familiar and strange. And if you’re like me, one series that has done so is The Alienist.
Timeless Stories: 9 Favorite Books Inspired by Mythology
Celebrate the release of The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr by (re)discovering some of these timeless stories in Waldherr’s collection of her 9 Favorite Books Inspired by Mythology. Summon your inner god or goddess, and don’t forget to pick up your copy of Kris Waldherr’s debut novel, The Lost History of Dreams. Though most readers are introduced to mythology in grade school, its appeal remains timeless.
Nancy Bilyeau recommends The Lost History of Dreams
Great books are timeless, web browsers are not. It looks like your browser is out of date. We do our best to support a wide variety of browsers and devices, but BookBub works best in a modern browser. For help upgrading, check out https://browsehappy.com/.
Crystal King and Kris Waldherr
Harvard Book Store welcomes writer and culinary enthusiast CRYSTAL KING and author, illustrator, and designer KRIS WALDHERR for a discussion of their respective new novels, The Chef's Secret and The Lost History of Dreams. About The Chef's Secret When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast estate—properties, money, and his position—to his nephew and apprentice Giovanni. He also gives Giovanni the keys to two strongboxes and strict instructions to burn their contents.
On Mourning and Post-Mortem Photography
It’s never good news when a phone rings at 2:30 in the morning. It’s probably a wrong number, you tell yourself. Still, between the first and second ring, you do a lightning round of everyone you love who might be at risk before you pick up. Did Mom seem worse the last time I spoke to her? What about that old friend who’d confessed they’d found a lump? It’s for this reason I usually turn off my ringer before I go to sleep—if it’s bad news, it’ll be there still in the morning.
Review: The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr
April 9, 2019 Jenn Review 0 The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr Published by Simon and Schuster on April 9, 2019 Genres: Fiction, General, Gothic, Historical, Mystery & Detective Pages: 320 Format: eARC Set in Victorian England, Robert Highstead has abandoned his passion as a historian and instead became a daguerreotypist, focusing on photographing the dead for grieving relatives.
Timeless Stories: 9 Favorite Books Inspired by Mythology
Celebrate the release of The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr by (re)discovering some of these timeless stories in Waldherr’s collection of her 9 Favorite Books Inspired by Mythology. Summon your inner god or goddess, and don’t forget to pick up your copy of Kris Waldherr’s debut novel, The Lost History of Dreams. Though most readers are introduced to mythology in grade school, its appeal remains timeless.
The Lost History of Dreams: A Novel|NOOK Book
Excerpted from The Lost History of Dreams by Hugh de Bonne, published 1837 by Chapman & Hall, London. Whilst the life inside her grew so round The dream was lost as it was found. Such was it thus : Aft their vows Orpheus slept espoused Silenced as the One Who Ends Came ’mid Helios to transcend Amor’s gilt clad arrow. Yet in the morn, Eurydice found no sorrow : Her eyes clamped mate, her devotion bright.
The Lost History of Dreams
Publisher Description A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets from the past that may hold the key to his future in this “sensual, twisting gothic tale…in the tradition of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights” (BookPage). All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. “This one happily succeeds at both” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr
“A surrealist, haunting tale of suspense” (Booklist): After poet Hugh’s death, his cousin Robert grapples with dark revelations and unsettling, unearthly visions. “Eerily atmospheric and gorgeously written… A gothic fairy tale to savor” (New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn).
The Lost History of Dreams
Wuthering Heights meets Penny Dreadful in Kris Waldherr's The Lost History of Dreams, a dark Victorian epic of obsessive love, thwarted genius, and ghostly visitations….Eerily atmospheric and gorgeously written, The Lost History of Dreams is a Gothic fairy-tale to savor." --Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network and The Huntress – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress "THE LOST HISTORY OF DREAMS refuses to be categorized as anything other than...
Bad Princess: True Tales from Behind the Tiara
Forget everything you thought you knew about princesses... Welcome to Bad Princess by Kris Waldherr (author of Doomed Queens), where you'll discover what really happens after "Happily Ever After." From the war-torn Dark Ages of Medieval Europe to America's Gilded Age, and all the way up to Kate Middleton, Bad Princess explores more than 30 true princess stories, going beyond the glitz and glamour to find out what life was really like for young royals throughout history.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Kris
Contact Kris, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack