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Women in Horror Month: A Look Back

An enormous amount of content was produced by and about women in horror during Women in Horror Month, 2014. I linked to a lot of this content via our Facebook page  However, since a lot of people don’t visit our Facebook page, I’m going to provide a list of links to places I visited and shared during the month that are related to WiHM(I really recommend that you visit there often, because not only will you get all kinds of awesome content that comes my way, but there are also links to all our blog posts– not just this blog, but the one for Reading Bites, and the one that notifies you of new reviews. So it’s a great way to see everything current).

Enjoy!

Mary Shelley Letters Discovered in Essex Archive-– The Guardian, January 15

Flowers in the Attic: The Value of Young Reading Perspectives-– Kelly Jensen, BookRiot

The Ghost of V.C. Andrews: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Mysterious “Flowers in the Attic” Author—  Kate Aurthur at Buzzfeed. For the first time, the family and colleagues of the author speak out to provide a fuller picture of her life.

The Literary Gothic— A web guide to biographical information on early supernaturalist authors, set to close down in June

Please Don’t Bring Me Flowers— Allison Peters, BookRiot

20 Black Women in Horror Writing— Sumiko Saulson. Essential reading for the month of February, for multiple reasons. Saulson also published a short ebook on black women horror writers in February of this year, available for free at Smashwords.

Women in Horror Recognition Month Facebook page

Gothic Pioneer Ann Radcliffe May Have Been Inspired by Mother-In-Law— The Guardian, January 30

Women Who Write Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno Garcia of Innsmouth Press

RA for All: Horror— Becky Siegel Spratford asks who your favorite woman writer in horror is.

Ania Ahlborn’s interview with J. Lincoln Fenn

The Rise of the Women in Horror Movement: Admirers, Haters, and Everything In-Betweeners at Brutal as Hell

Statistics on genre writer submissions by gender at Tor UK, by editor Julie Crisp. Crisp’s statistics demonstrated that women submit fewer manuscripts than men, at least at Tor UK, so sexism by the publisher isn’t the only factor at play.

Women in Horror Month: Girls Can Kill, Too!— Bloody Disgusting

Writing female protagonists, by Lisa Morton– HWA blog

Genre-blending from Mary Shelley to the present by J. Lincoln Fenn– HWA blog

Horror Roundtable on Sexism— HWA discussion. Read the comments section– it’s very interesting!

Women Destroy Science Fiction Kickstarter— Lightspeed Magazine. In spite of everyone’s insistence that all-women issues are not desirable, this Kickstarter campaign to fund an all-women writers’ issue of Lightspeed Magazine was so successful that the people at Lightspeed expanded to include issues called Women Destroy Horror (published as an issue of Nightmare Magazine) and Women Destroy Fantasy (published as an issue of Fantasy Magazine). The campaign is over, but this shows there is clearly a demand for work by women writers. Look for the special issues later this year!

Mary SanGiovanni on her personal experiences as a woman writer of horror.

Creating female protagonists, by Lisa Morton (again, although not the same piece)– RA for All: Horror

Women in Horror Month: Pseudonyms and Author Anxiety— KC Redding-Gonzalez

Rabble Rouser Wednesdays: On the Issue of Misogynist Writers and Readers by Paula Ashe

Hugh Howey on Self-Publishing

Mark Coker responds to Hugh Howey

Tonia Brown on her personal experience with self-publishing

What’s Wrong With Female Werewolves in Popular Culture? at Darkmedia

Women in Horror Month Archives 2014— Darkmedia

Spreading the Writer’s Word— A daily spotlight on a book by a woman writer of horror

Siren’s Call Publications— download their free ezine devoted to Women in Horror Month

60 Black Women in Horror by Sumiko Saulson— free download to this guide at Smashwords.

 

There is some great stuff at those links and I hope you will take the time to explore them. I hope you had a great time learning about women in horror, and especially women in horror fiction, during the month of February. Don’t think that just because the month is up that it’s time to stop, though! Keep your eyes open for news on how Monster Librarian plans to keep women writers visible over the next several months– it will be a challenge to keep it up with the Stokers coming up and all kinds of reviews to edit, write, and share, but it’s totally worth it. So welcome to March– another month set aside to recognize women’s contributions to the world. Let’s see where it takes us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women in Horror Fiction: Who’s Where? An Index to Women in Horror Month, 2014

It has been a huge month for participation by women writers in horror here. I thought that it would be easier on people trying to find information on a particular writer if I just compiled links to this month’s posts here. I am awed by the variety of the women who write horror. They’re everywhere!

I also found all kinds of great links to posts by or about women writers in horror this month, and I shared most of those on ML’s Facebook page, but I’ll compile a list of those links as well. Not in this post, though. 🙂

Introduction

V.C. Andrews 

Joan Aiken

Tonia Brown: Guest Post “Romancing the Groan”

Debbie Cowens

J. Lincoln Fenn

Wednesday Lee Friday

Sephera Giron

Hannah Kate

Sarah Pinborough

Angeline Hawkes

Karen H. Koehler

Michele Lee

Lori R. Lopez

Lisa Mannetti

Elizabeth Massie

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Suzanne Robb

Mary SanGiovanni

Mary Shelley

Alexandra Sokoloff

Becky Siegel Spratford: Guest Post “Discovery of Women Horror Writers for Public Library Collections”

Barbie Wilde

 

Women in Horror Fiction: Wednesday Lee Friday

 

Image of Wednesday Lee FridayAfter deciding against being a ballerina, an ichthyologist, and a famous singer, Wednesday Lee Friday decided to become a novelist just before starting kindergarten.  Her books include A Stabbing for Sadie (Crossroad Press 2014), The Cat’s Apprentice (StoneGarden.net Publishing 2008), Kiss Me Like You Love Me (Crossroad Press 2013), and The Finster Effect (Crossroad Press 2012). Her short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with some carnivorous plants, a few cats, and her husband. She is a very busy woman of horror!

 

1.) Can you give our readers a brief introduction?

Hi readers!  I am Wednesday Lee Friday, author of A Stabbing for Sadie, Kiss Me Like You Love Me, and The Finster Effect in addition to a bunch of wild short stories.  I’m also a TV and movie reviewer, a sex writer, and the managing editor of Under the Bed Magazine, a horror fiction monthly.  I’ve studied theatre and broadcasting and have worked as everything from a reptile wrangler to a phonesex operator to a manager at a now defunct video store chain (almost rhymes with Lackluster).  Mostly though, I love horror.

 

2. Why do you write horror?  What draws you to the genre?


The horror genre is about exploring our limitations as humans and discovering what, if anything, could drive us to do things well outside out established morality.  Some people insist that there must be a supernatural element in horror, but I couldn’t disagree more.  Horror is in the everyday things that haunt us with their impending possibility.  Horror is what turns us against our fellow humans out of fear and desperation.  Horror is in every act of violence, every lie, every glare from a stranger, every wish that some annoying fuckwit would get hit by a truck just so we don’t have to deal with them anymore.  Horror is all around us.  Horror writers just want to make sure you notice.

 

3. Can you describe your writing style or the tone you prefer to set for your stories?


I’m a firm believer in first-person narration.  To my mind, it’s the best route for intimacy, immediacy, and understanding.  I write horror with the desire to help people get their heads around the unfathomable.  Kiss Me Like You Love Me follows a very damaged man as he commits deplorable acts of violence on truly innocent people.  Readers have reported being extremely uncomfortable by experiencing the killer’s point-of view—that it makes them feel complicit in his deeds.  This perspective also makes the reader watch helplessly as the killer repeats his pattern over and over.

 

4. Who are some of your influences?  Are there any women authors who have particularly inspired you to write?


I confess, a lot of my favorite horror writers are fellas.  Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Christopher Moore are my big three.  But I’ve been influenced by plenty of ladies: most notably Shirley Jackson, Mary Shelley, and the great Margaret Atwood.  I know Atwood isn’t typically called a horror writer, but her books scare the hell out of me.  The Handmaid’s Tale gave me nightmares for years afterward.  I’m still depressed over the end of Maddaddam.  I’m continually amazed at how Atwood uses such lyrical, beautiful prose even as she’s describing terrible people and horrific brutality.

 

5. What authors do you like to read?  Any Recommendations?

I read a good one by Kate Jonez recently: Candy House.  Amy Grech also has a splendid collection called Blanket of White.  I enjoyed a collection recently by Antoinette Bergin called Bedtime Stories for Children You Hate.  I read those Hunger Games books recently.  Those should probably be called horror books, especially given the ending.  Yeesh!
6. Where can readers find your work?

My website is a great place to catch up with all my insidious deeds.  In addition to Amazon and Smashwords, my books are also available from Macabre Ink Digital and Crossroads Press. 

Thanks so much for letting me be a part of Women in Horror month.

 

Interested in learning more? Visit Wednesday Lee Friday’s Amazon author page, her Smashwords page, or the website for Under The Bed, the online horror fiction magazine she edits. And check out this incredibly awesome nonfiction piece on point of view and how it can make or break a story– something she mentioned briefly above.