Images:
1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror).
2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026);
Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024).
3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)).
4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.
Images:
1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror).
2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026);
Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024).
3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)).
4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.
Images:
1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror).
2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026);
Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024).
3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)).
4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.
Images:
1: Floral grey background with a closeup of the cover from 1000 Women in Horror (2026) poster in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Women in Horror).
2: Floral pink background with black bands containing text at top (Women in Horror; Nonfiction book recs (horror analysis)) and bottom (HoL logo). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2020); House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Film (Expanded Edition) by Kier-La janisse (2024); I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies by Heidi Honeycutt (2024); Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video Horror Directed by Women by Rachael Herb-Neterer (2026);
Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema by Barbara Creed (2022); Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words: Conversations with Authors and Editors edited by Sébastien Doubinsky and Christina Kkona (2024).
3: As above (book titles: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (2023); 160 Black Women in Horror by Suimko Saulson and Kenya Moss-Dyme (2023); New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror by Patricia Pisters (2022); Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse (2020); Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa B. Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (2019); Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke (2022)).
4: Floral pink background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text: holpublishing.com/grimreader.
For #womenshistorymonth and #womeninhorrormonth, March's reading list is focused on women creatives in horror—writers, editors, and filmmakers.
Save for later, share, and follow the #grimreader for more (150+ book recs!): holpublishing.com/grimreader! 🖤
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