March is Women in Horror Month, which coincides with Women's History Month.
One reason I started Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein a few years ago was to help focus my reading and discover new authors, ones I might not otherwise read.
Here are some of the women I've discovered through the blog.
One reason I started Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein a few years ago was to help focus my reading and discover new authors, ones I might not otherwise read.
Here are some of the women I've discovered through the blog.
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I had heard of Housman through Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature" but hadn't read any of her fiction until one month I decided to look into werewolf fiction by women. I'm glad I did.
https://deepcuts.blog/2022/04/16/the-were-wolf-1896-by-clemence-housman/
It turns out that Lovecraft leaned heavily on the scholarship of these two women while writing his own article on weird fiction; while "Supernatural Horror in Literature" is more popular, these works are worth reading.
https://deepcuts.blog/2021/05/26/the-supernatural-in-modern-english-fiction-1917-by-dorothy-scarborough-the-tale-of-terror-1921-by-edith-birkhead/
A writer of ghost stories who is often forgotten today.
https://deepcuts.blog/2023/05/06/the-death-mask-and-other-ghosts-by-h-d-everett/
Murray didn't write much (deliberate) fiction, though she has one good mummy story in her autobiography. Yet she was very much an influence on contemporary horror through her nonfiction.
https://deepcuts.blog/2020/07/25/the-witch-cult-in-western-europe-1921-by-margaret-a-murray/
One of Lovecraft's contemporaries in the weird pulps; they didn't quite cross paths, but her work has recently seen a resurgence of interest.
https://deepcuts.blog/2023/03/11/sunfire-1923-by-francis-stevens/
I went looking for Draculas, and found one in a very unexpected - and exceptionally interesting - narrative poem by a New England poet.
https://deepcuts.blog/2024/02/10/a-dracula-of-the-hills-1923-by-amy-lowell/