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Too many fairies? Is this the same Poppy Z Brite we're thinking of here? Tanith Lee you can make a case for with that one, I suppose


I said they were EXCEPTIONS. Tanith Lee- whilst having a fey character that i'm talking about- she at least writes it well.


As for Poppy- I had a brief 'conversation' with her once when I said that I thought 'Are you Loathsome Tonight' was singularly unimpressive and had put me off reading any more of her stuff. Just read the dedication in that book. Hostility echoed off every page. Worse than that, it just wasn't very good. Books written in that frame of mind generally aren't.

However she was generous enough not to get annoyed at me and pointed me in the direction of some of her other books she thought were better. And there's something there. So that's why she's an exception.

gryposaurus wrote:

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Too many fairies?

That's a joke right?

Bookhoard wrote:

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only meant that (generally speaking) they are a little too 'fey' for my tastes.

Too many faeries.

No offense or anything -- but is there anybody you do like?




Plenty, as it goes. Or I wouldn't be here. I just don't believe in putting authors on a pedestal.

dogpoet wrote:

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damastes7 wrote:

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I only meant that (generally speaking) they are a little too 'fey' for my tastes.

Too many faeries.

Too many fairies? Is this the same Poppy Z Brite we're thinking of here? Tanith Lee you can make a case for with that one, I suppose.

When you say that they can't write half as well, how are you defining that? Prose style? (Elizabeth Hand in particular writes with a very crisp, eloquent tone that manages to be baroque without ever crossing the line into sounding florid and overdone.)

Oh no, there are many who fall into the step of as you say 'florid and overdone' but their actual writing-descriptive prose, use of grammar, characterisation etc is usually excellent, if not better than more hasty male writers.

What i was referring to is your point below....
I've read (most of it comics) is deeply unpleasant horror.



I find it's just too nice.

Cloudhurler wrote:

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Women in Horror in the NY Times

Caitlín R. Kiernan is amazing -- especially her short fiction.
Kathe Koja, who is finally returning to adult fiction with Under The Poppy, is our David Cronenberg. Absolutely revolutionary and as good as any contemporary writer that has passed through our beloved genre.
A.R. Morlan wrote varied short fiction of excellent quality. And then there were her novels. Dark Journey is a masterpiece and Morlan is the most overlooked horror writer to emerge from the early nineties.
Gemma Files, at her best, is as good as anyone.
Kelly Link only occasionally visits Horror, but what occasions they are. I think of her as Fantasy's Martha Soukup.

And then there is Elizabeth Hand, Lisa Tuttle, Elizabeth Massie, et al.

And then there are the brilliant one-offs:
Anne Rivers Siddon -- The House Next Door
Erika Mailman -- The Witch's Trinity
Lynn Biederstadt -- Sleep: A Horror Story
Sheila Kohler -- The Perfect Place
Cecile Pineda -- Face

Even less than their male counterparts, the best female authors of Horror have a rather low profile -- but if you seek them out, you will amply rewarded for the effort.


Do they enjoy having such a low profile, then? I have heard of three on your list, Cloudhurler- but the rest....nope.