The Month

Feb. 2nd, 2021 01:38 pm
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So it's Women in Horror Month again (every year!), as well as Black History Month, and I am two days into two new deadlines, one of them a bit more pertinent than the other, in that it pays...the other is essentially a donation on my part, though the idea I have for it is both fun and--hopefully--erotic, as well as falling into one of my favourite sub-categories, ie: I Practice A Very Specific Sort of Magic[k], Ask Me How! (The magic[k] here is Sex Magick, in case you wondered.)

Otherwise, I made a WiHM 2021 reading list for myself out of the books written by women I currently have on my phone's Kindle app but have not yet read, to my great guilt and shame. This begins, as of today, with D.K. Broster's Couching At The Door, a collection of short weird fiction from which I've previously only sampled the frequently-anthologized title tale, back when I didn't know her first name was Dorothy. (I was already some way into Women's Weird when the month began, a collection of strange stories by women from 1890 to 1940, edited by Melissa Edmundson, which also includes it.) And today brought me downloads of two new female-written books that probably qualify under the dark-thriller-might-as-well-be-horror rule, Courtney Summers's The Project and Sarah Langan's Good Neighbours, to add to the rest along with that copy of Alma Katsu's The Deep that I totally forgot I'd even ordered, which is why Amazon.ca is a dangerous fuckin' place.

The entire list, therefore, as amended today:

Couching at the Door (D.K. Broster)
The Project (Courtney Summers)
Good Neighbours (Sarah Langan)
The Deep (Alma Katsu)
Corregidora (Gayl Jones)
Willful Monstrosity: Gender and Rage in 21st Century Horror (Natalie Wilson)
The Black Isle (Sandi Tan)
It Will Just Be Us (Jo Kaplan)
[The Girl From] Rawblood (Catriona Ward)
Revenge (Yoko Agawa)
The Hollow Places (T. Kingfisher)
Things in Jars (Jess Kyd)
The Worm and His Kings (Hailey Piper)
The Occultists (Polly Schattel)
A Skinful of Shadows/Changeling Song (Frances Hardinge)
Ghost Wall (Sarah Moss)
The Ghosts and Family Legends/The Night-Side of Natural (Catherine Crowe)
A Dowry of Blood (S.T. Gibson)
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts and God (Claire Cronin)

Read the books, post some reviews, keep up with everything else--that's the plan. "Everything else" meaning getting Cal back on his distance learning and making sure he keeps up with his extracurriculars, plus living my life, deadlines and all. Seems doable.

Date: 2021-02-03 03:58 am (UTC)
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I was already some way into Women's Weird when the month began, a collection of strange stories by women from 1890 to 1940, edited by Melissa Edmundson, which also includes it.)

That sounds like it should be great. How is it?

Date: 2021-02-04 08:04 am (UTC)
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I'd forgotten how much I like "Kerfol," by Edith Wharton.

I don't think I've read that one. I'll look for it.

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