Welcome to Women In Horror!

In the horror and thriller pantheon, women have not always been seen as equal to their male counterparts. This is such a bizarre concept, as women have excelled at capturing terror since the dark ages!

A Vindication of Monsters Author Interview – With Donny Prentice Jr

https://youtu.be/AEFEbWjaCEc Check out this fabulous interview with 'A Vindication of Monsters' contributor 'Donald Prentice Jr.' Donny's essay 'An Articulation Of Beauty In The Film ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein' is one of the more academic endeavours sure to delight anyone interested in the idea of beauty and aesthetics in film. 😁

Memento and Memory – With Lucy Sussex

My family retain mementoes, passing them down through the generations. We have a box allegedly made from fragments of Nelson’s Victory (from the naval side of the family), a painting on satin by a great-aunt who died at the age of sixteen, over a century ago; and among the extended family, the contracts an ancestor …

What Makes A Monster? With Anthony P Ferguson

I personally feel I’m about the last person who should be appearing here. I’m a white CIS male (and I had to look up what CIS means cos I’m also old) who to be honest, doesn’t know a great deal about Mary Wollstonecraft or Shelley, outside what I’ve learned from this process. I am of …

On the Shelley obsession with ‘creating’ androgyny by Ciarán Bruder.

My name is Ciarán Bruder. I’m an Irish writer, movie fan, wannabe-avid reader, and lover of horror. What compelled me to write this essay? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has stuck with me for a long time. It was the first horror book I ever read. Others have elicited greater fear, or have held my attention more …

A Vindication of Monsters: Lee Murray

Lee Murray is a multi-award-winning author-editor, essayist, poet, and screenwriter from Aotearoa-New Zealand. A USA Today Bestselling author, Shirley Jackson- and four-time Bram Stoker Awards® winner, Lee is an NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow, and a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow. Lee’s essay in A Vindication of Monsters, called “Mary Shelley: Pandemics, Isolation, and Writing”, has its foundations in the Australian …

An Emu’s Perspective – By HK Stubbs

When Claire Fitzpatrick said she was putting together a book about Wollstonecraft and Shelley, I was very keen to contribute, because Wollstonecraft was one of the writers who opened my eyes to the inequity of society, when I studied women’s literature at the University of Queensland, late last century. I like to phrase it as …

A Vindication of Monsters

From IFWG Publishing. We have been waiting quite a while to post this announcement, mainly due to the complexities of finalising our TOC and the myriad of contracts it entails. It is now with great pleasure that we reveal the makeup of Claire Fitzpatrick’s brilliantly curated collection of essays, A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on …

Throwback….With Lynn Hortel

The idea for my novel, Throwback, began when I moved to Joshua Tree, California and fell in love with the surreal desolation of the place- it’s twisted beauty. It does feel like another world when surrounded by all those Joshua trees- like right out of a Dr. Seuss book. Some believe it has vortexes- masses …

Tide Of Stone – With Kaaron Warren

"....when first the tide of brass Hath seized upon and held possession of The iron's open passage-ways, thereafter Cometh the tide of the stone, and in that iron Findeth all spaces full, nor now hath holes To swim through, as before....’ I did a lot of reading while writing 'Tide of Stone.' I tend to …

The Forceful Women in Val Lewton’s 1940’s RKO Horror Films – By Alyson Faye

 Val Lewton (1904-1951)  ‘The Sultan of Shadows’ The Russian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter was the driving force behind the new, low budget, dedicated horror ‘B’ film unit at RKO in the 1940’s. Lewton produced a string of strange, poetic, arty films like 1942’s Cat People, 1943’s I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man …