Fematales contains 13 super sexual horror stories. How about a psycho cheerleader wanna-be who wields a knife, or a morgue attendent who has a special method of bringing in customers? There are sexy hitchhikers you never want to pick up, and women who kill for pleasure. Extreme sex and violence that will leave you torn between arousal and disgust. Cover by Marcella Hose.
Stylistically, the collection could have used some work in terms of the copy-editing and general flow, but otherwise, it’s a decent offering. Although it’s notoriously difficult to achieve good characterization in short fiction, Hose could have spent more time developing some of the women in Fematales beyond the daddy/boyfriend/abuse/rape issues they seem to share. If he went into their specific motivations and dug deeper into them, the anthology would resonate more.