Dangerous Dames: Women Who Write Horror
I started writing seriously in high school after reading several of Stephen King’s novels; I got hooked on horror at the tender age of twelve when an aunt gave me a copy of Cujo. I’ve been reading Stephen King’s books ever since. Growing up during the 1980s, I noticed there weren’t very may women writing scary stories. Inspired, I set out to change that. Why should men have all the fun, writing frightfully good fiction? …
February 14, 2020 –12:00 AM
I’m hunkered down in a narrow, dusty, windowless room of my modest house. I’ve been down here for a couple of months…Happy Valentine’s Day! Love is in the air. I know the date because I’ve been marking the days on the wall calendar with an X — it’s the only way to keep track of time now that the power’s out.
My name is Placido Sanchez, and I am sitting hunched over a rickety card table, scribbling this in a tattered notebook with a pencil, squinting as I write by the dim glow of a kerosene lantern, purchased from the mall. …
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