The Fearsome is Female

Horror has always been a way for women to speak the unspeakable — to talk about their lives, and the constraints of being female, more graphically and explicitly than they could in “polite” or respectable fiction. In this series, Sady Doyle dissects iconic women of the horror genre and their preoccupations, drawing connections between gender and the grotesque.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.