I’m the only one who sees them. I’m not sure if I’ve lost my mind. Maybe I’m schizophrenic, maybe I’m dead. Maybe it’s something I’m not meant to comprehend. For me they exist behind that door. Everyone else thinks I’m crazy…. but for me they couldn’t be more real. I should leave this house.
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"I think women, or any writer, regardless of gender, hold themselves to a higher standard if they want to succeed in this business. I don’t think it has anything to do with the past. As a matter of fact, women these days are being given preference over men in many areas of horror, so if anything needs to be changed, that does. Equality is equality, and nobody should be given an edge."
At least that was what the farmer insisted when he told the story years later. He had walked that stretch of low field since childhood. The marsh grass grew thick there, and the fog from the river often drifted across the land after sunset.
There had never been a path.
Yet that night, a single lantern glowed in the mist as if someone were standing just ahead.
Ireland has always been a country of wandering lights.
Do you ever find yourself looking at a horror scene differently than any male authors you have talked about it with? If so, could you give us an example?
I haven’t had many deep discussions about horror scenes with male authors specifically, but the topic of gender in horror does come up. Someone asked recently whether simply having a female main character automatically makes a book feminist. And honestly, that question says everything.
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*Trigger Warnings: Extreme Horror, Graphic Violence, SA
The Butchered Writers are interviewing all the women in their group for Women in Horror 2026. Here is my interview.
