One of the things that really sets modern horror apart, whether it’s on the page or the screen, is its diversity. With new perspectives leading to bold new ideas and writing, these are some of the female horror writers you absolutely must read.
Lauren Beukes
The South African writer has risen to prominence as one of the leading names in contemporary horror, and with good reason. Her writing is visceral, fast-paced, and intelligent, leaving your mind racing and your stomach feeling a little uneasy. Her novel Broken Monsters is an almost Cronenbergian body horror take on racial identity and how society dehumanizes the physical bodies of those it marginalizes.
Carmen Maria Machado
With her short story collection: “Her Body And Other Parties” set to be adapted into a tv show in the coming year, Machado’s star has never been bigger. And it’s richly deserved, her writing is very much in the vein of authors like Kelly Link and George Saunders, who defy easy categorization. But with a Shirley Jackson like streak of feminism and psychological horror laced through it.
Livia Llewellyn
And now to a name that deserves far more recognition than she garners, Livia Llewellyn is one of the more unique and distinctive voices in modern horror. Combining Lovecraftian otherness and a tremendous prose style that is at once elegiac and precise, with a horror sensibility that could be best described as psychosexual, preoccupied as it is with human appetites and bodies. Of particular note is her short story collection Furnace, one of the finest collections to be released in the last decade.
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