![]() ![]() They’re still fully aware and sentient, but they suddenly can’t repress their urges to commit violence against the women around them. GFM: As a kid, one of my favorite stories was Alice Sheldon’s “The Screwfly Solution”, which is a similar sort of gender apocalypse where overnight, every man in the world becomes a homicidal rapist. ![]() Gretchen Felker-Martin: The plot idea came to me first, and then I sat down and hashed out the people that I wanted to explore it with.ĭC: Was there an inciting incident? What spawned this? Dread Central: What came first when you were first conceptualizing Manhunt? Plot or characters? We caught up with Gretchen Felker-Martin for a chat about Manhunt, queer and trans representation in horror, and her upcoming novel, Cuckoo. Manhunt rocked the horror lit scene, with readers and critics praising the author for her evocative prose, fresh take on the apocalypse survival genre, and beautifully crafted and unflinchingly grotesque scenes of carnage. Together, the group fights for survival against both rabid cis men and a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) militia group that is systematically hunting and killing trans people. Joining the group, albeit reluctantly, is Robbie, a trans man who, up until this point, has been lone wolf-ing it. Their closest friend and ally, a cis woman named Indi, is a fertility specialist who processes the estrogen from the organs of dead cis men. ![]()
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