Francis Stevens published her first story in 1904. She was just 17 years old. Like the teenage Mary Shelley and Frankenstein before her, she changed how speculative fiction would be written afterwards, but for some reason Stevens is not a household name. Hopefully, that is about to change.
Strange Bodies is strange indeed. It’s some bizarre stew of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Grendel. At the outset, the reader is introduced to Nicholas Slopen, a man who insists he is a man who has already died. He is a guest of a local asylum and tells what he remembers of his life…