If you were asked to list ten women who write horror, could you? It wasn't until I was looking at the listings of authors in the last two anthologies I had work published in, Hides the Dark Tower and Once Bitten , that I really began to think about how few female authors of horror are well-known. By well-known, I mean recognisable to people who don't usually read this genre. Most would probably know Mary Shelley or Daphne du Maurier , some might get as far as Anne Rice , or even, to stretch the horror genre description to extreme limits, Stephanie Meyer . But why so few? So why are there not more well-know women horror authors? Hides the Dark Tower was edited by two highly respected female editors and writers, Kelly A. Harmon and Vonnie Winslow Crist. Once Bitten is published by Knightwatch Press, then under the auspices of Theresa Derwin, and these are just the tip...
Musings on the mundane and the macabre and all the oddities in between.