Women in Horror: Part Ten

Women in Horror: Part Ten

Welcome back to HWA's WiHM feature special! We're now at part ten & I'm proud to present to you a little piece by author & journalist, Natasha Ewendt! Embrace the weird   So, you’re a female horror writer? You write about blood and guts and torture and monsters and stuff? That’s a bit unsavoury for a lady, isn't it? Newsflash: A lot of us ladies aren't really ladies. Well, we may have the “lady gear”, but as for the cookie-baking, chick-flick-watching, blinking kind of lady stereotype, that’s a small set of the female population that’s just widely portrayed in the…
Women in Horror: Part Nine

Women in Horror: Part Nine

  Today we have something a little different, Michael Randolph takes us right back to our roots...   Ancient Roots Enough cannot be said of the impact that women have had on horror. For more than a millennium women have written stories that chill the heart, laying laid down roots well before the gothic period. If you look into the deep past…far back into the Middle Ages (12th century), you will find the one of the original werewolf stories or Lais written by Marie De France, a noble woman. Marie wrote a series a poems or Lais with the only…

Women in Horror: Part Eight

Hello & welcome to our next installment of our feature for Women in Horror Month! Today we have author Sèphera Girón  sharing her thoughts on one of her inspirational women, Mary Shelley, one of our great Femme Founders.   Mary Shelley and Me  Mary Shelley will be discussed a lot during Women in Horror month on blogs around the world. Of that, I have no doubt. Many of us consider her one of the Queen Bees of the genre. There is no doubt she is responsible for some of the most recognizable icons and slang in modern culture. Her legacy of the…

Women in Horror: Part Seven

Good day to you all! Today we have the delightful company of author Julianne Snow talking about the horrors that our female authors dream up...& she means business!      Women Write Horror? Damn Right They Do!    Ensconced in a community such as this, we’re often insulated from the disbelief some others hold that we (women) write horror. But take us out of that bubble and things change. At times I don’t feel I have the luxury of discussing what it is I do for a living because the people who inhabit my everyday life simply don’t, and won’t,…
Women in Horror Month: Part Six

Women in Horror Month: Part Six

  Today we are joined by Catherine Jordan, author of  Saving Samiel. Here she considers the darker side of Women's horror fiction...       February is Women in Horror Month.  For me, this means I have a great opportunity to learn about other authors as well as promote myself.  It was learning about Mary Shelly and her long ago gathering that inspired me to challenge myself and write a scary novel.  I had to sit and think about what scares me. What came to mind were the bad-ass female characters that I admired, but feared, such as:  Gillian Flynn’s…

Women in Horror Month: Part Four.

Here we are on our fourth installment of Women in Horror Month! Today we have the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Semi-Finalist...J Lincoln Fenn whose novel Poe has wowed readers everywhere.  Fenn lends her humorous & quirky manner to an insightful post of one of WiHM's leading ladies, Mary Shelley.   MARY SHELLEY, GENRE-BENDER     It’s the summer of 1816, Switzerland, although it doesn't feel like it­—the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora has cast the world into a long volcanic winter. What’s a bored girl to do? If you’re 19-year old Mary Shelley, you decide you’re going to win a bet about who can come…
Women in Horror Month: Part Five.

Women in Horror Month: Part Five.

  Hello & welcome to our fifth installment of WiHM! Today we have author Rachel Aukes giving her opinion on the subject of the readership of horror fiction written by women authors...        Why Men Don’t Read Horror Books by Women     “I typically don't read books written by women.”   I’d wanted to write this blog post ever since receiving that comment in an email from a reader in regards to my latest novel, 100 Days in Deadland. Fortunately, that particular reader gave my book a chance anyway and I gained a new fan. But, it raised a…
Women in Horror: Part Three.

Women in Horror: Part Three.

Hello & welcome to our third day of WiHM!  Today we have J G Faherty with his viewpoint of the female touch to the horror fiction genre. A big reader of horror, especially of the 80's horror genre, he's keen to share his views with you all.     Daughters of Darkness  We came to battle baby We came to win the war We won’t surrender Till we get what we're lookin’ for   Daughters of darkness Sisters insane A little evil Goes a long, long way -‘Daughters of Darkness’ by Halestorm   The year was 1971. Or maybe 1970.…
Women in Horror Month Part Two.

Women in Horror Month Part Two.

Here we are once again on this, our second day of WiHM! Today I'm proud to present the lovely Lisa Morton, a name we all know & love. We share similar thoughts on the subject of female characters within horror fictions novels & tales, as well as the opinion that women should be more forward in their writing. Meanwhile here she is on the subject of the Female Protagonist...       FEMALE PROTAGONISTS IN HORROR A Blog Essay by Lisa Morton     Quick: Name the last horror novel you read with a female protagonist. <Crickets chirp. Distant freeway…
Welcome to Women in Horror Month!

Welcome to Women in Horror Month!

Hello & welcome to Women in Horror Month 2014! I'm proud to be acting as editor for this special month where we all get to celebrate our Femme Fatales of the genre. From the weavers of worlds filled with fear & dread to those of us who work hard at making it all come together, women have an instrumental part to play in the horror fiction genre at large.  Ever since the days of Gothic Literature, women have been an integral part of the horror genre. Our guides being Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Elizabeth Gaskell & Charlotte Bronte in the…
Strangulation

February in Poetry: “Women in Horror” & Introduction by Peter Adam Salomon, Editor

'Strangulation' by Marge Simon In the ‘November in Poetry’ column, poet Wendy Rathbone touched on an eternal truth that is so vital that I wanted to follow up on it. Wendy spoke of the ‘earliest and best known darker tales’ being poems: “Beowulf,” “The Iliad,” “The Odyssey.” Dark poetry continues throughout known history from Dante’s “Inferno” to Milton’s “Paradise Lost” to William Blake to Poe. This month, I’d like to go back even further in time, to show just how important the darkness has been, not just to poetry, but to all literature. One of the oldest surviving works of literature…