Introductions

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

Hey everyone, welcome to the Ladies of Horror Fiction Group! Thank you for joining us and tell us a little bit about yourself!

[Jen]

I'll start! I'm Jen. I'm part of the Ladies of Horror Fiction team. I'm excited to get to know more folks in the community.

[Tborder]

Ohhh me next!!! I'm Toni. The host of the LOHFpod cast and a member of the Ladies of Horror fiction team.

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

I'm Laurie aka Bark on the internets. I'm also a member of the Ladies of Horror Fiction team. I work behind the scenes helping with the LOHF website and our LOHF directory and am excited to share LOHF reading recommendations and find a bunch for myself because I'm greedy like that!

[Laurie]

Hello, I am also Laurie. I really love horror novels and horror novels by women are even better! My favourites include Shirley Jackson (of course) and Michelle Paver. I’m looking to discover new lady horror authors and this seems like the perfect place.

[Tborder]

Laurie wrote: "Hello, I am also Laurie. I really love horror novels and horror novels by women are even better! My favourites include Shirley Jackson (of course) and Michelle Paver. I’m looking to discover new la..."

Hey Laurie!!!!

Welcome to the group.

Toni

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

Laurie wrote: "Hello, I am also Laurie. I really love horror novels and horror novels by women are even better! My favourites include Shirley Jackson (of course) and Michelle Paver. I’m looking to discover new la..."

Welcome to the group, Laurie! I love Shirley Jackson but haven't read Michelle Paver yet. I'lll have to change that soon!

[Amanda]

Hellllo! I’m Amanda and I love lady horror! Looking forward to talking to you all. 🖤👻🖤

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

Amanda wrote: "Hellllo! I’m Amanda and I love lady horror! Looking forward to talking to you all. 🖤👻🖤"

Welcome to the group! I'm glad you joined us!

[Valerie - Cats Luv Coffee Book Reviews]

Hey everyone! I'm Valerie of Cats Luv Coffee Book Reviews. 🐾 I'm a blogger and Twitter stalker! 😄

[Aina]

Hi everyone! I’m Aina from Read By Dusk. I’m looking forward to reading and discussing horror books by female authors!

[Jen]

Welcome, Valerie! I'm glad you are here.

[Tborder]

Welcome everyone!!

[Jen]

Aina wrote: "Hi everyone! I’m Aina from Read By Dusk. I’m looking forward to reading and discussing horror books by female authors!"

Hi Aina! *waves*

[Jessica (Spooky KidLit & We Who Walk Here, Walk Alone)]

Hello! I’m Jessica. I blog about adult horror at We Who Walk Here and kids’ horror at Spooky KidLit. I’m excited to be a part of this group!

[Tborder]

Jessica (Spooky KidLit & We Who Walk Here, Walk Alone) wrote: "Hello! I’m Jessica. I blog about adult horror at We Who Walk Here and kids’ horror at Spooky KidLit. I’m excited to be a part of this group!"

Welcome to the group Jessica!!! I know that Jen and Lilyn enjoy kid lit as well.

[Jen]

Oh, Jessica! I love that you are a champion of kidlit horror!

[Jenn]

Hello! I’m Jenn, and I am a fan of the LOHF reviews and recommendations. I used to run a book review and freelance editing blog, but it was exhausting and I gave it up because I felt like I had to cater to everyone, and couldn’t focus on my true love: HORROR! Anyway, looking forward to what comes out of this group, and apologizing in advance for my tendency to lurk like a proper creepy introvert. Cheers everyone!

[Jen]

You will fit in great here, Jenn. We are a group of proper creepy introverts! :)

[Tborder]

Jenn wrote: "Hello! I’m Jenn, and I am a fan of the LOHF reviews and recommendations. I used to run a book review and freelance editing blog, but it was exhausting and I gave it up because I felt like I had to ..."

Welcome to the group Jenn. I am totally a creepy introvert. :)

[Tracy]

Hi! I’m Tracy. I’m part of LOHF and I review horror almost exclusively.

[Latasha]

Hi! I’m Tosha 😊 I read all kinds of crazy stuff.

[Tborder]

Latasha wrote: "Hi! I’m Tosha 😊 I read all kinds of crazy stuff."


Hi Tosha!!! Welcome the group!

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

I'm so glad to see you all here!

And here's another creepy introvert checking in, lol.

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥]

Hi all! I’m just a crazy coming over to stalk and such! 😃

[Red]

It's so lovely to see you all!

I'm Catherine, I'm a member of the Ladies of Horror Fiction crew also. I like to help with things behind the scenes, relating to the website.

I absolutely adore the community and the support the project has and is continuing to receive. I want to say THANK YOU!

[Shawnna]

Hi everyone! I'm Shawnna and I love to read horror! I'm excited to discover some new horror reads!

[Tborder]

Hi Shawnna!!!

Welcome to the group!!

[Marie]

Wow this is cool! A group for the ladies of horror! Awesome!

My name is Marie and I am a horror buff. Love Darcy Coates and Amy Cross! Looking for more ladies of horror to add to my tbr pile!

Hi Bark! *waves*

[Marie]

Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ wrote: "Hi all! I’m just a crazy coming over to stalk and such! 😃"

You can stalk anytime, Melissa! lol I am happy to see some of my friends here in this group! :-)

[Tborder]

Welcome to the Group Marie!!!

[Marie]

Tborder wrote: "Welcome to the Group Marie!!!"

Thank you! I am happy to be here! :)

[Kari]

I'm Kari and just saw this group existed and got pretty excited by the concept! I hope it's ok to join in. I'm relatively new to horror and hoping to increase my ever-expanding TBR list with horror by women. (I'm quickly becoming a fan of Darcy Coates and Michelle Paver.) I don't blog but I like reading them and enjoy discussing books with others. :)

[Gareth]

Great to have this group, met many of the writers I follow initially through their short stories and appearance in horror anthologies.

Looking forward to later this year 'Sing Your Sadness Deep' first collection by Laura Mauro, and 'Ormeshadow' debut novel by Priya Sharma.

[Sarah]

Hi I'm Sarah! Proud to support all women in horror 😊👏

[Kimberly]

Hello, Kimberly here! (Another creepy horror introvert). Also on the Horror After Dark blog. I started following LOHF when they started a challenge on IG, and I realized that out of literally hundreds (more like over a thousand) physical books alone, MOST EVERY ONE was by a male author. This was an honest shock to me at the time, and since then I've been searching out more women horror writers, and trying to promote and support their work. Slowly but surely, the book authors are starting to diversify! This group has been quite an eye-opening inspiration. :)

[Tborder]

Kimberly wrote: "Hello, Kimberly here! (Another creepy horror introvert). Also on the Horror After Dark blog. I started following LOHF when they started a challenge on IG, and I realized that out of literally hundr..."

Hi Kim!!!

[Allie]

Hi! I'm Allie. I run a very badly maintained blog (mostly because I'm too tired to blog). I also host a new podcast with my best friend and run a discord server for horror lovers! Horror is definitely my favorite genre to read. I just like spooky things

[Sara]

Hi! I'm Sara, and I'm very excited for this group's existence. I'm a horror writer and love following everyone's reviews and blogs to see what they are reading so I can stalk what to read next :-) Happy reading/writing/creeping to all!

[Jen]

Welcome everyone!! I'm so excited to see you all here.

[Tborder]

Sara wrote: "Hi! I'm Sara, and I'm very excited for this group's existence. I'm a horror writer and love following everyone's reviews and blogs to see what they are reading so I can stalk what to read next :-) ..."

Hey Sara!!!

[destiny ♡]

Hey everyone, thanks for having me! <3 My name's Destiny and I blog at Howling Libraries Book Reviews, where I focus mainly on SFF, realistic contemporary, and — of course — horror! I'm happy to see this group being started up and I can't wait to make new friends and hopefully have some awesome buddy reads with you all!

[Tborder]

destiny ♡⚔♡ wrote: "Hey everyone, thanks for having me! <3 My name's Destiny and I blog at Howling Libraries Book Reviews, where I focus mainly on SFF, realistic contemporary, and — of course — horror! I'm happy to se..."


Hi Destiny!!!! I love the new avatar it is super cute.

[destiny ♡]

Tborder wrote: "destiny ♡⚔♡ wrote: "Hey everyone, thanks for having me!


Hi Destiny!!!! I love the new avatar it is super cute."

thank you!! <3

[Emma]

Hi all. I read a lot of horror when I was younger but it’s been a neglected genre for me more recently.

But thinking about that past reading... most, if not all, of it was male. I’m really looking forward to getting great recs outside the obvious/library horror.

Nice to meet you all!

[Tborder]

Emma wrote: "Hi all. I read a lot of horror when I was younger but it’s been a neglected genre for me more recently.

But thinking about that past reading... most, if not all, of it was male. I’m really lookin..."

Hi Emma!!

Welcome to the group. We are in the process of working on some recommendation bookshelves. But a great new introduction would be anything by Gwendolyn Kiste.

Toni

[Sonora]

Hi everyone! My name's Sonora. I write dark fiction and have published four books - two novels and two short story collections. Looking forward to chatting about horror with all of you - I've discovered a lot of great authors and books thanks to the Ladies of Horror Fiction team.

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

Welcome, everyone!! We are so glad to have you here.

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

J. wrote: "Hi! I'm Jamie. I write under the name J. Danielle Dorn bc otherwise search engines give you a handsome Irish actor who's famous instead of a weird American writer nobody's heard of. Not even mad. L..."

lol, I'm glad you made your way here!

[exorcismemily]

Hi, I'm Emily! I help with social media for Ladies of Horror Fiction.