annabellioncourt:

belligerentbunny:

I love how werewolf/vampire/monster tv shows are now considered girl shows. Like, that genre is ours now. Fangs, claws, and the supernatural are now considered girl stuff, and that pleases me far more than I’d like to admit.

The first werewolf story written down was Bisclarvet. Written by a woman.

Mary Shelly. 

Christina Rossetti’s goblins. 

Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic horror castles. Angela Carter’s women with fur and fangs and fear of nothing. 

Anne Rice telling of a woman vampire goddess. Shirley Jackson and the horrors rooted in our own suburbia. 

Flannery O’Conner. Margaret Atwood at times. 

Three sisters on the cold English moors writing stories of ghosts and death and wicked love. 

Massive slews of ghost stories written by women and churned out by 18th and 19th century literary pamphlets. 

This has always been our genre.