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Women in Horror Month – our recommendations!

I did an online reading Feb. 25 with Syosset Public Library and HWA NY Chapter (more about that under the Appearances tab above). Readers were Linda D Addison (an HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient), plus three writers from HWA-NY: Meghan Arcuri, April Grey and me.

Each of us made a list of five women in horror that we’d recommend for you to check out. I put them into a little video, and the list is below so that you don’t miss any names!

Linda D. AddisonHow To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend https://www.amazon.com/Recognize-Demon-Become-Your-Friend/dp/1530128102/
 Her website:www.LindaAddisonPoet.com
Linda recommends:1. Silvia Moreno-Garcia – MEXICAN GOTHIC  (Del Rey)
 2. Lee Murray – GROTESQUE: MONSTER STORIES (Things in the Well)
 3. Christina Sng – A COLLECTION OF DREAMSCAPES (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
 4. Nicole Givens Kurtz  – SLAY: STORIES OF THE VAMPIRE (Mocha Memoirs Press)
 5. Mercedes M. Yardley – ARTERIAL BLOOM (Crystal Lake Publishing) — also strong writer
Meghan ArcuriA New York State of Fright (Hippocampus Press) https://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/a-new-york-state-of-fright
 Her website:
www.MeghanArcuri.com
Meghan recommends:1. Marianne Halbert – COLD COMFORTS (Crossroad Press)
–fiction collection
 2. doungjai gam – glass slipper dreams, shattered (Apokrupha)
–fiction collection
 3. Alma Katsu – THE HUNGER (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) –novel
 4. Justina Ireland – DREAD NATION (Balzer + Bray) –novel
 5. Christina Sng – A COLLECTION OF NIGHTMARES (Raw Dog Screaming Press) –poetry collection (same author as Linda, different collection)
April GreyHell’s Mall: Sinister Shops, Cursed Objects and Maddening Crowds (Lafcadia Press) tinyurl.com/339bhusk
 Her website:AprilGrey.blogspot.com
April recommends:1. Jessica McHugh – THE TRAIN DERAILS IN BOSTON (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
 2. Ania Ahlborn – SEED (47North) — or anything else by her
 3. Helen Phifer – THE GOOD SISTERS  (HQ Digital) — or any of her detective/haunted house books
 4. Darcy Coates – THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR: A Ghost Story (Black Owl Books) — or any of her haunted house books
 5. J. K. Rowling, pseudonym Robert Galbraith – The Cuckoo’s Calling – Cormoran Strike series (Mulholland Books) — Or, anything by Charlaine Harris (had to sneak her in!)
Carol GyzanderStories We Tell After Midnight (Crone Girls Press) https://www.amazon.com/Stories-We-Tell-After-Midnight/dp/1696935164/
 Her website:Right here! CarolGyzander.com
Carol recommends:1. Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn, editors – BLACK CRANES: TALES OF UNQUIET WOMEN (Omnium Gatherum Media)
 2. Caitlin Starling – THE LUMINOUS DEAD: A NOVEL (Harper Voyager)
 3. Rachel A Brune, editor/publisher at Crone Girls Press (and a great writer, too!)
 4. Michelle Renee Lane – INVISIBLE CHAINS (Haverhill House Publishing)
 5. Chris Marrs – PRAIRIE GOTHIC: An Anthology (Prairie Soul Press)

The toughest thing was narrowing it down to only five!

If you want to watch our reading, check it out at bit.ly/SyossetWiHMreading