by Ali Seay | Mar 25, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, New Fiction, New Horror
She hides herself in the stacks and then she screams for me. I came back from my newly nested home in the warm hills of Los Angeles to care for this woman, and she hides in her doom piles and shrieks for me. “Mother! I can’t help you if you hide from me,” I call. I...
by Sarah Sexton | Mar 23, 2023 | New Horror, Fiction, Women In Horror, New Fiction
Grace had a small scar on her chest—no longer than a fingernail, no wider than floss— that I never asked about. It was visible for the few weeks every summer when the air smelled like melting tar and sweat and she resigned herself to wearing flowy sundresses that...
by Willow Dawn Becker | Mar 21, 2023 | New Fiction, New Poetry, Poetry, Fiction, Women In Horror
There are hearts that beat somewhere In tangled sheets that trip and noose Or coil around bodies, Rabbit-fast, and faster, harder. Unaware that their drum Is an echo of something started Long before— A shadow of the emptiness to come. But my heart beats...
by Elizabeth Gaskell | Mar 19, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, Classic Horror
YOU know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask...
by Aya Maguire | Mar 18, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, New Fiction
When my mother went through the wormhole in the summer of ‘95, I sat on my porch waiting for her light to return—as if she, like a star, would simply gather into existence out of the dark. She had discovered the wormhole, she and her team. I wanted to be just like...
by Louisa May Alcott | Mar 13, 2023 | Fiction, Women In Horror, Classic Horror
Louisa May Alcott is best known for her tale of Victorian life, Little Women. Still, she had a passion for horror and suspense, and wrote these tales of dark fiction under a plethora of pseudonyms to avoid tainting her reputation as a women’s fiction writer....
