February 2017 marks the 8th annual Women in Horror Month. Over the years, Weird Fiction Review has supported countless women writers in the weird fiction community by publishing fiction and nonfiction pieces by and about women authors. To celebrate the 8th annual WiHM, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite horror short stories we’ve published by women writers since 2014.
In addition, you should also check out our nonfiction articles including our 101 Weird Writers series which features such women as Kelly Link and K.J. Bishop. And there’s also our list of 14 notable women writers of the Weird.
- Kristine Ong Muslim — “Beautiful Curse” and “Day of the Builders”
- Livia Llewellyn — “Furnace”
- Leena Krohn — “Eyelids That Spatter Blood,” “The Trepanist,” and “The Bystander”
- Khalida Asghar — “The Wagon”
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Marian Womack — “Orange Dogs”
- Kelly Link — “Lull”
- Liz Williams — “The Hide”
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Greer Gilman — “Down the Wall”
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Leena Likitalo — “Ocelia, Ocelia”
- Marly Youmans — “Drunk Bay”
- Edith Wharton — “The Eyes”
- Nadine Monfils — “The Red Dress”
- Anne-Sylvie Salzman — “Zelenka”
We hope you enjoy these and we look forward to bringing you many more stories crafted by talented women writers of the Weird.