On the final day of Women in Horror Month I’m choosing myself because, hey, I need some love too! It’s a tough gig being an indie horror author. One of my main strengths as a writer, so I’m told, is…

Today I’m choosing author Richie Tankersley Cusick. She wrote quite a few of the Point Horror books, which I devoured as a teen, including the very first one that I ever picked up and read – Trick or Treat. For…

Today I’m choosing writer and humanist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Her story The Yellow Wallpaper was a semi-biographical piece written when she was suffering from postnatal depression. The Yellow Wallpaper is a harrowing tale in which Gilman highlights the issue of…

Today I’m choosing author Sarah Pinborough specifically for her novel Mayhem which is a supernatural thriller set in the time when Jack the Ripper was on the prowl. As well as the fact that I do love a good Jack the…

Today I’m choosing Dutch artist Lois Van Baarle. Her work is very fantasy-like, but some of it has a definite dark streak. Take a look at her stuff HERE…her portfolio is fun, vibrant, gorgeous and pretty addictive.

Today I’m choosing Anne Rice’s character Akasha who was the very first vampire in existence and the mother of them all. As well as the fact that all of Rice’s vampires originated from this one woman, I love that she’s…

Today I’m choosing Canadian film director Mary Harron who gave us the screen version of American Psycho. Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, was never a huge fan of the film. He didn’t believe that it needed to…

Today I’m choosing author Susan Hill who has given us a collection atmospheric, gothic ghost stories such as The Woman in Black and The Mist in the Mirror. Hill’s ghost stories are the perfect accompaniment for autumn and winter nights…

Today I’m choosing the film The Craft. Released in 1996, it came out at a time in my teens when I was at the beginning of my goth phase and knew what it felt like to be a bit of…

Today I’m choosing author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who gave us Frankenstein. Shelley, an English writer who was born in 1797, came up with the idea for Frankenstein while holidaying in Lake Geneva with her husband Percy Shelley, her step-sister Claire…