POC and Female Horror Writers

writeworld:

weaverworks asked: I love your list on female science-fiction authors! Is it okay if you could try to make a POC horror authors and women horror authors? I’d appreciate it. :)

I must say, I was a bit surprised I didn’t know more of these off the top of my head. I didn’t include graphic novels or manga in either list, and there are some repeats from one to the other, as the designations “POC” and “Female” are not mutually exclusive.

POC Horror Authors:

• J. F. Gonzalez, author of Clickers (with Mark Williams), Clickers II: The Next Wave (with Brian Keene), Survivor, Bully, and Fetish
• Maurice Broaddus, author of Devil’s Marionette and The Knights of Breton Court: King Maker
• Tananarive Due, author of Joplin’s Ghost
• Brandon Massey, author of Thunderland and Covenant
• Jermiah Jefferson, author of the Voice of Blood series
• Wrath James White, author of The Resurrectionist, Succulent Prey, and Population Zero
• Darlene Black, author of Necromancy
• L.A. Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress series and the Crimson Moon series
• Qwantu Amaru, author of One Blood
• Akash Bansal, author of Avenue of Death
• Gakuto Coda, author of the Missing series
• Dia Reeves, author of Bleeding Violet and Slice of Cherry
• Evie Rhodes, author of Expired and Criss Cross
• Tize W. Clark, author of The Maze and QT
• Otsuichi, author of Goth: A Novel of Horror
• Koji Suzuki, author of the Ring series
• Hideaki Sena, Ph.D, author of Parasite Eve
• Andre Duza, author of Dead Bitch Army
• Koushun Takami, author of Battle Royale
• Michael Boatman, author of The Revenant Road

Female Horror Authors:

• Billie Sue Mosiman, author of Widow
• Gemma Files, author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns
• Kirstyn McDermott, author of Madigan Mine
• Tananarive Due, author of Joplin’s Ghost
• Dia Reeves, author of Bleeding Violet and Slice of Cherry
• Evie Rhodes, author of Expired and Criss Cross
• Shirley Jackson, author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
• Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher
• Mara Leveritt, author of Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
• Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
• Jemiah Jefferson, author of the Voice of the Blood series
• Octavia Butler, author of Fledgling
• Anne Rice, author of The Vampire Chronicles series
• Poppy Z. Brite, author of Exquisite Corpse and Lost Souls
• L.A. Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress series and the Crimson Moon series
• Daphne du Maurier, author of Rebecca
• Agatha Christie, author of And Then There Were None
• Anne Rivers Siddons, author of The House Next Door
• Darlene Black, author of Necromancy
• Lucy Snyder, author of Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess
• Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
• Carrie Ryan, author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth series
• Mira Grant, author of the Newslfesh trilogy
• Rhiannon Frater, author of As The World Dies: A Zombie Trilogy
• Dorothy Macardle, author of The Uninvited
• Lisa Mannetti, author of Deathwatch
• Catherynne Valente, author of Deathless
• Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black
• B.E. Scully, author of Verland: The Transformation
• Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian
• Connie Corcoran Wilson, author of The Color of Evil

Thank you for your question!

-C

I will close with the warning (again) that you should never, under any circumstances, read anything by Poppy Z. Brite. You will be scarred for life. Scarred. For life.

On that note, I know I can’t have gotten them all, so does anyone else have suggestions for either list?

Poppy Z. Brite, bless your awful heart.