The Haunting

A collection of poems concerned with how the living and the dead coexist, how to survive trauma, and the power of persistence.

The Haunting is a book of feminist-horror visitations, incantations, and possessions embodied in unruly forms that subvert genre and generic definitions of poetry and prose. This is a collection that is concerned with how the living and the dead coexist, how to survive trauma, and the power of persistence. Drawing from a variety of texts including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, twentieth-century horror films, the Velvet Underground, and Ovid, The Haunting explores the anxieties of ancestral and artistic inheritance, rage, transformation, motherhood, maternal ambivalence, and the drive to create.

Cate Peebles is the author of Thicket, as well as five chapbooks, including Sun King and The Woodlands. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online magazines, such as the American Poetry Review, Bayou, Bennington Review, DIAGRAM, diode, Ploughshares, and Volt. A coeditor of the occasional online poetry magazine, Fou, she is an archivist living in Pittsburgh.