Female Horror Authors

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Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,613 ratings
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The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House 3.81 avg rating — 365,436 ratings
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The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black 3.75 avg rating — 77,980 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by: Anne Rice
4.02 avg rating — 633,916 ratings
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The Little Stranger
The Little Stranger 3.57 avg rating — 58,381 ratings
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Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,935 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,338 ratings
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Angel Manor (Lucifer Falls #1)
Angel Manor (Lucifer Falls #1) 3.94 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Fledgling
Fledgling 3.80 avg rating — 37,698 ratings
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Even Hell Has Standards: Pride
Even Hell Has Standards: Pride 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.42 avg rating — 16,590 ratings
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Sunglasses After Dark (Sonja Blue, #1)
Sunglasses After Dark (Sonja Blue, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 2,999 ratings
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Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
Feed (Newsflesh, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 60,907 ratings
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There Is No Lovely End
There Is No Lovely End 4.13 avg rating — 129 ratings
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My Life as a White Trash Zombie (White Trash Zombie, #1)
My Life as a White Trash Zombie (White Trash Zombie, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 13,630 ratings
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Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic 3.67 avg rating — 416,604 ratings
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The Drowning Girl
The Drowning Girl 3.71 avg rating — 5,730 ratings
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Seed
Seed 3.80 avg rating — 34,892 ratings
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She Walks in Shadows
She Walks in Shadows 3.76 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott 3.80 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly 3.67 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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Brother
Brother 3.91 avg rating — 65,176 ratings
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Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing 4.10 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Infernal
Infernal 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 42,667 ratings
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A Book of Tongues (Hexslinger, #1)
A Book of Tongues (Hexslinger, #1) 3.46 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Deeply Twisted: Twenty dark tales with a twist
Deeply Twisted: Twenty dark tales with a twist 4.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Arachnight: A Horror Short Story
Arachnight: A Horror Short Story 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Were-Wolf
The Were-Wolf 3.69 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The Drowned
The Drowned 3.80 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Missing (Keeper, #2)
The Missing (Keeper, #2) 3.60 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
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InSEXts, Vol. 1: Chrysalis
InSEXts, Vol. 1: Chrysalis 3.54 avg rating — 505 ratings
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In The Dark: A Horror Anthology
In The Dark: A Horror Anthology 3.83 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Strings
Strings 3.77 avg rating — 595 ratings
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The Dark Beneath the Ice
The Dark Beneath the Ice 3.42 avg rating — 985 ratings
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The First Days (As the World Dies, #1)
The First Days (As the World Dies, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 9,886 ratings
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Clean Room, Vol. 1: Immaculate Conception
Clean Room, Vol. 1: Immaculate Conception 3.85 avg rating — 2,818 ratings
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Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica
Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica 3.61 avg rating — 2,757 ratings
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The Evolutionist
The Evolutionist 3.78 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Lottery and Other Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating — 82,506 ratings
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The Queen of the Cicadas
The Queen of the Cicadas
by: V. Castro
3.72 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
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Nightmare Magazine 25: October 2014. Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue
Nightmare Magazine 25: October 2014. Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue 3.75 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Novels & Stories: The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Other Stories and Sketches
Novels & Stories: The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Other Stories and Sketches 4.29 avg rating — 1,351 ratings
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Fright Mare: Women Write Horror
Fright Mare: Women Write Horror 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Four Horrifying Tales
Four Horrifying Tales 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Skin of the soul: New horror stories by women
Skin of the soul: New horror stories by women 3.60 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Good House
The Good House 4.01 avg rating — 9,530 ratings
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Beautiful Nightmares: A Women In Horror Anthology
Beautiful Nightmares: A Women In Horror Anthology 3.81 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Garden of Bewitchment
The Garden of Bewitchment 3.67 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend, #1)
Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend, #1) 3.50 avg rating — 6,603 ratings
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My American Nightmare: Women In Horror Anthology
My American Nightmare: Women In Horror Anthology 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Deep
The Deep 3.32 avg rating — 11,576 ratings
53.
White Is for Witching
White Is for Witching 3.54 avg rating — 12,890 ratings
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Women of Darkness II: More Original Horror and Dark Fantasy by Contemporary Women Writers
Women of Darkness II: More Original Horror and Dark Fantasy by Contemporary Women Writers 3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Those Who Came Before
Those Who Came Before 4.04 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Witches' Brew: Horror & Supernatural Stories By Women
Witches' Brew: Horror & Supernatural Stories By Women really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Cipher
The Cipher 3.53 avg rating — 7,215 ratings
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The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women
The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Nang Tani
Nang Tani 4.50 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Lady Chillers: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories by Women Authors (15 Complete Stories by Victorian and Edwardian Mistresses of the Macabre)
The Lady Chillers: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories by Women Authors (15 Complete Stories by Victorian and Edwardian Mistresses of the Macabre) 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Sed de Sangre
Sed de Sangre
by: V. Castro
4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Moonshine (Zephyr Hollis, #1)
Moonshine (Zephyr Hollis, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Obsidian: A Decade of Horror Stories by Women
Obsidian: A Decade of Horror Stories by Women 3.49 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Strange Girls: Women in Horror Anthology
Strange Girls: Women in Horror Anthology 3.25 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Missing (Keeper, #2)
The Missing (Keeper, #2) 3.60 avg rating — 1,787 ratings
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Ladies of Horror 2008
Ladies of Horror 2008 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Hearts & Bones
Hearts & Bones 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects 4.01 avg rating — 1,179,569 ratings
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Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Wild Things: A Collection of Female Horror Fiction
Wild Things: A Collection of Female Horror Fiction really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror 3.91 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The Queens of Victorian Horror - Rare Tales of Terror from the Pens of Female Authors of the Victorian Period: Including an Introduction by H. P. Lovecraft
The Queens of Victorian Horror - Rare Tales of Terror from the Pens of Female Authors of the Victorian Period: Including an Introduction by H. P. Lovecraft liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 542,169 ratings
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Southern Cross, Vol. 1
Southern Cross, Vol. 1 3.58 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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Allison Hewitt Is Trapped (Zombie, #1)
Allison Hewitt Is Trapped (Zombie, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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Coffin Hill Vol. 1: Forest of the Night
Coffin Hill Vol. 1: Forest of the Night 3.50 avg rating — 1,597 ratings
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Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike 3.79 avg rating — 13,392 ratings
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Anathema
Anathema 3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Vampirella (2014-2015) Vol. 1: Our Lady of The Shadows (Vampirella (2011-))
Vampirella (2014-2015) Vol. 1: Our Lady of The Shadows (Vampirella (2011-)) 3.37 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings