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I’ve been reading an interesting assortment of anthologies lately, this one amongst them. I consider myself fortunate to have shared pages with many talented writers in the past, and this compilation of ghoulish tales from great women is no exception to my good fortune. Every story from my seventeen cohorts in horror had something of merit to offer and while the themes and styles of some of tales appealed more to my sensibilities than others, I didn’t dislike a single one. It was interesting to
The horror is poured on right from the get-go with the introduction from Angel Leigh McCoy. After reading her chronicle of women’s historical status as victims of rape, sexual objectification, honour killings and ridiculous myths about menstruation, I felt quite depressed to be female. McCoy states that “the stories in this anthology deal, whether metaphorically or directly, with the trials and tribulations of being a woman.” But don’t be misled – often, the women in these stories give as good a...