Recommended Reading: Weird Fiction by Women

In the lead-up to Halloween, minds inevitably turn to weird fiction. One interesting post is an old one by A.C. Wise and is entitled Women of the Weird over at Weird Fiction Review.

The list and the reasoning:

1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Revolves around the idea of an uncanny malevolence and the idea of being watched. Here it is the patterns of the wallpaper.
2. Silvia Moreno-Garcia “Flash Frame”. Picks up and subverts H.P. Lovecraft’s legacy.
3. Camille Alexa “His Sweet Truffle of a Girl”.
4. Ada Hoffmann “Harmony Amid the Stars”.
5. Molly Tanzer “The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins”.
6. Kelly Link “The Specialist’s Hat”. A gothic setting, the general aura of unseen threat, and pervasive air of the odd.
7. Caitlin Kiernan The Red Tree. The narrator is unreliable. Time is tricky, the past bleeding into the present like a haunting. The idea of nature as a quiet malevolence is presented in the tree of the title.
8. Livia Llewellyn “Furnace”. Takes place in a town seemingly preserved in time, where death endlessly occurs to a young girl, on the same stretch of road each time.
9. Karin Tidbeck “Moonstruck.” The day a young girl gets her first period, the moon begins to descend, drawing closer and closer to earth. At the same time, her mother, an astronomer, begins to change.

More details, as well as links to some of the stories, are available at the original link.