Ashe (Nictitating Books, 2022, GoodReads) We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. ‘What Was Russian Symbolism?’ (Museum Studies Abroad) Review: Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins (MIT Press edition by Michael Dirda in Washington Post, Dec. ‘The Literary Legacy of Pauline Hopkins’ (WBUR, Feb. Zinaida Gippius, Part 1 (Making Queer History) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Chapter XIII, search “men in green”) Sara Orne Jewett (“Return to Witness the Supernatural,” article, ) ‘House of horror: the poisonous power of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper‘ (by Katherine Hughes, The Guardian, Feb. LISTEN: TOD 022 Two Weird Panels: ‘Mary Shelley & Frankenstein: The Roots of Cosmic Horror’ at NecronomiCon 2017 and ‘Women in Weird Fiction’ from HPLFF 2017 Weird Women 2: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1840-1925.

Klinger and Lisa Morton, Simon & Schuster, 2020) Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 (edited by Leslie S. LISTEN: TOD 115 The Horizon Is Still Way Beyond You: Zora Neale Hurston’s Life and Legacy (includes an interview with Nicole Givens Kurtz about the Blackened Roots anthology) LISTEN: TOD 113 State of The Weird Roundtable 2022 Visit our Patreon page and donate to The Outer Dark and the This Is Horror Podcast today. Please subscribe to The Outer Dark podcast RSS Feed All proceeds fund the podcast and future The Outer Dark Symposia. If you’re looking to treat yourself to Something Weird or a unique gift for that Weird friend or family member, visit our STORE at to purchase T-shirts, tote bags, mugs, and coasters with The Outer Dark logo designed by Nick “the Hat” Gucker.

Vaughan, and all the fabulous NecronomiCon 2022 team for allowing us to air this podcast’s content, which was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 21, 2022. Be sure and scroll down to the Additional Links for all their reading recommendations! Thank you to Niels Hobbs, K.H. Our panelists trace the history of these Weird women who shaped the genre, identify those overlooked or forgotten, and discuss the influence of women writers from Mary Shelley to the modern era.

Recent scholarship shines an increasing light on the women founders and pioneers of Weird fiction who have been there since the beginning of the genre and who have been sometimes sidelined, sometimes writing under pseudonyms, and sometimes celebrated. The Outer Dark presents “The Weird Has Always Been Female: The Women’s Canon of Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Ann VanderMeer and featuring Christa Carmen, Leslie S. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 21, 2022.

Collected Fiction Part 1 by Leena Krohn