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Susan E. Rogers is the author of the horror novel Death in the Cards (PsychoToxin Press, 2023). She has also had horror stories published in magazines and anthologies as well, among them the Night Terrors 12 (Scare Street, 2021) and 101 Proof Horror (Czykmate Productions, 2021). She has a horror novella in the works for a 2024 release by PsychoToxin Press as well as a horror/mystery novel, Haunted in Paradise, slated for publication by Grendel Press this year.

Jennifer Horgan likewise writes horror short stories. She has had horror stories published in the anthologies 666 Flags (PsychoToxin Press, 2023) and Campfire Tales (PsychoToxin Press, 2023).

Catherine Cavendish has a long list of horror novels and story collections to her credit. Some of her horror novels include The Haunting of Henderson Close (Flame Tree Press, 2019), Dark Observation (Flame Tree Press, 2022), The Crow Witch and Other Conjurings (Weird House Press, 2022) and Nemesis of the Gods (Weird House Press, 2023). Mia Delia is another up and coming woman horror author of novels as well as story collections. Her books include the novels Estate Sale (first edition Black Ink Fiction, 2023; second edition, Independently Published), the novellas Tell Me a Story and Discordant (Psychotoxin Press, 2023), and the collection Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness (Anuci Press, 2024). Some other women horror authors rocking the scene include Angela Sylvaine , author of Frost Bite (Dark Matter Ink, 2023), Nikki R. Leigh , author of Her Teeth, Like Waves (Spooky House Press, 2023) and Lessons in Demoralization (DarkLit Press, 2022), and Tracey Nudd , author of Not Dead Yet (Independently Published, 2023). If poetry is your thing, women horror authors are writing horror poetry books too.K Vincent is one, having written three such books: Within Her Thoughts( Independently Published, 2023), Within Her Thoughts: Book Two (Independently Published, 2023) and Within Her Thoughts: Book Three (Independently Published, 2024).

Women authors have provided some amazing and entertaining work in the horror genre. With or without a Women in Horror Month, these

authors and many like them will continue to write in a i fast becoming one which they, too, can call their own.

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