February is Women in Horror Month as I mentioned in my TBR post. There are a lot of great books in the genre (or adjacent to the genre) written by women and what a great time to prioritize those titles. There are a lot of books I could have mentioned, so I tried to limit this specific list to books that I have read myself, or that have been mentioned on the podcast. So, I might do an updated version of this list next year with a whole new list of authors and books!
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Young Adult
“I sought to puncture Heaven and instead discovered Hell.”
Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
- And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
- The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
- House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin Craig
- Sadie by Courtney Summers
- Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
- The Wicked Deep by Shea Earnshaw
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
- The Merciless by Danielle Vega
Novels
“That’s what it was: those little silences that slipped into their conversations like splinters, his need reaching out through the air and finding her, cold. That’s what had changed between them.”
Kea Wilson, We Eat Our Own
- Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn
- Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
- My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithewaite
- Experimental Film by Gemma Files
- Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
- Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
- My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- The Grip of It by Jac Jemc
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Confessions by Kanae Minato
- The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
- We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson
- Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
- Tinfoil Butterfly by Rachel Eve Moulton
- The Making of Gabriel Davenport by Beverly Lee
- The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
- The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste
- Maria the Wanted by V. Castro
- Alice by Christina Henry
Novellas
“Some evenings, he describes the waking world beyond here. It almost makes me grateful I’m dead.”
Gwendolyn Kiste, Pretty Marys All in a Row
- Dear Laura by Gemma Amor
- Twin Lakes: The Autumn Fires by Melissa Larson and Michelle Garza
- I Call Upon Thee by Ania Ahlborn
- Pretty Marys All in a Row by Gwendolyn Kiste
- Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant
- When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom
- Come Closer by Sara Gran
- Halloween Fiend by C.V. Hunt
Short Story Collections
“Everything devours itself. Lust. Hate. Love. We burn and burn until there is only ash, and then we eat what remains. Carry it inside of us like a secret. Until it grows into something else.”
Kristi DeMeester, Everything That’s Underneath
- Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due
- Everything That’s Underneath by Kristi DeMeester
- Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked by Christa Carmen
- Body by Asa Nonami
- Fright Into Flight edited by Amber Fallon
- I Am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland
- Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
- Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
Non-Fiction
“Time sands the edges of the injuries, but they never lose their hold.”
Michelle McNamara, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
- Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer
- Savage Appetites: Four True Crime Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
- Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger, Melanie R. Anderson
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