![]() ![]() ![]() Now let me first clarify a few things before we go on. To outline what follows, this article will firstly cover a select number of writers I consider the most important to the horror genre, past, present, and future, and then end with two lists (a Recommended Reading list, and a Still to Read list). ![]() So I made a goal to only read novels by female writers during 2014 and to write an article covering this for next year’s Women in Horror Month. I was also asked by my writer friend Gillian Polack to write a post on any female artist I admired for Women’s History Month that following March, but due to my crazy schedule at the time, I couldn’t get it done. It wasn’t until I started chatting to him for a Roundtable that I realized my mistake! I’m embarrassed to admit that for many years, I thought Kim Newman was a woman. And often, I don’t know if the writer is male or female it doesn’t matter to me. Heck, when I’m selecting a book, I don’t really consider the author unless I’m a fan of theirs it’s more what the story sounds like. It’s just that somehow, over the years, I had tended towards male writers. Those who know me know I’m anything but sexist. About eighty percent of them were by male writers. In January 2014, I ran a Horror Roundtable for the HWA called Sexism in Horror, and after that discussion, I went to my bookcase and considered the novels I owned. ![]()
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