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   Books, magazines, movies, what are your best & worsdt memoriers relating to    
   horror?   
      
   I'll seed this by listing some women in horror:   
      
   Ellen Datlow (Editor), Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Pinborough, Susie Moloney,    
   Elizabeth Massie, Tananarive Due, Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire), Anne Rice,    
   Shirley Jackson, Dee Wallace (The Howling and Cujo), Lisa Morton, Susan Hill,    
   Neve Campbell (Scream), Gemma Files, Nancy Kilpatrick, Sephera Giron,   
   Adrienne  Barbeau (The Fog), Tamara Thorne, Chantal Noordeloos, Jennifer Kent   
   (Director  of The Babadook), Elizabeth Hand, Lucy Taylor, Fay Wray (the   
   original King Kong film), Gabrielle Faust, Julie Ann Dawson, Lisa Mannetti,   
   Max Da Silva Willis  (Artist), Kathe Koja, Yvonne Navarro, Reyna Gillette   
   Young (Last Doorway  Productions), Cherie Priest, Emily Perkins and Katharine   
   Isabelle (Ginger  Snaps), Mary Shelley, Priya Sharma, Lori Michelle, Kathy   
   Ptacek, Alison  Littlewood, Dawn G. Harris, Lupita Nyong'o (Jordan PeeleÆs   
   Us), Michelle Garza, Deborah LeBlanc, Thana Niveau, Marie OÆRegan, Kitty Kane,   
   Linda Blair, Lisa  Tuttle, Linda D. Addison, Tanith Lee, Karen Black (Trilogy   
   of Terror), Ashley  Davis, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Nancy Holder, Bari Wood,   
   Elvira (Cassandra  Peterson), Kaaron Warren, Tippi Hedren (The Birds), Abigail   
   Larson (Artist),  Lauren Beukes, Fran Rubel Kuzui, Naomi Watts (The Ring),   
   Rena Mason, E.A. Black (Trish Wilson), Sarah Langan, Heather OÆRourke   
   (Poltergeist), Melanie Tem,  Candace Hilligoss (Carnival of Souls), P.D.   
   Cacek, Ingrid Pitt, Paula Guran,  Catt Dahman, Sigourney Weaver, Sarah   
   Michelle Gellar (Buffy and The Grudge),  Lynne Hansen (Artist), Alma Katsu,   
   Nancy A. Collins, S.P. Miskowski, Darcy  Coates, Anne Rivers Siddons, and so   
   many more.   
      
   (List is from thehorrorzine.com for Women In Horror Month)   
      
   My earliesrt introductino to horror was a scifi story in a scifi anthnology   
   of  short stories I rea when I was 8 -- it was, essentially, the seed for   
   "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- I wasn't affected by it -- was an   
   interesting read &  I think a real ironic ending that I was especially   
   impressed by (not enough to  remember with detail 47 years later, though)   
      
   Fastr forward to age 11 or 12, & I had a little portabloe 12" black & white TV.   
       
   One night, whebn my dad was overnight shift at work, I had it under my   
   covers,  watching late (past 1 or 2), with the brightness dimmed & the volume   
   low enough I had to be nearly nose to screen to hear the dialogue.  The late   
   night movie I was watching was "Carrie" (Stephen King's first movie)   
      
   Nothing remarkable throughout -- the prom scene -- got that, as I was a   
   victim  of bullying, too. Yeah, it was horrid, but when her powers kicked up   
   into  overdrive -- whee-whoooo! interesting. . .   
      
   I was blithely watyching/listening until tyhe very end [spoiler alert]   
      
   when the camera slowly, ever so s l o w l y moves in on the gravestone, to   
   show sdue was dead & buried, & then BOOM! (jump scare), her obviously dead arm   
   shot  up from the grave right into my face (thank goodness it wasn't 3D else   
   I'd've  likely had some bed linens to change before sleeping!)   
      
   On t hat -- I think it sucks that there's no true horror in movies any more   
   --  they substitute gore & jump-scares for actual suspense & eerieness.   
      
   I happily got into Stephen King's novels as a teen -- his stuff was all    
   psychological, with enough "this might actually happen here one day" to bump    
   the heart rate up a bit)   
      
   I later moved on to Dean Koontz, whom I refer to as "Stephen King  for   
   adultsd" as I found King getting lazy & going with graphically gratuitous gore   
   in his  later novels & a clear misogynistic tone, IMO.   
      
   Try Koontz' "Frankenstein" trilogy -- it centres on Dr. Frankenstein's   
   original monster, who still lives, & has, with the doctor,. been experimenting   
   in  creating super humans, of which he was the first (2 hearts, regeneration,    
   perfect knowledge & recall, & more)   
      
   His job was to grow h.sapiens II in tanks, giving inn vitro education to them,    
   & to seed the population of their ground zero, with dopplegangers who were of    
   the new species & taking over, first by killing the person in charge they    
   replaced, then by eventually leading the citzens to be harvested &    
   replaced/discarded.   
      
   Not so much old school horror -- more new style (descriptive rather than    
   emotive), but a fun read. . .   
      
   I'm more into scifi & mystery these days, but not averse to a good horror   
   novel or anthology when I come across them. . .   
      
      
      
      
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