Literature

Have any of you ever read Women Who Kill? Perhaps one of the only nonfiction books out there on female serial killers and violent murderers (the other being Carol Ann Davis's Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers?)

The author, Ann Jones, will be speaking in New York City tonight! From Lizzie Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, Ann Jones's bestselling Women Who Kill investigates how and why women have murdered throughout American history, and what their cases reveal about prevailing social prejudices and legal practices...

I don't know if you remember us talking about Sarah Langan's latest horror novel Audrey's Door (actually, we said, “Audrey’s Door is the so-far culmination of her literary efforts, and fans of her previous work will agree that this is her best story yet”), but you can now download a PDF of it for free here!

The print version is in stores since yesterday. It's at your local airport, WalMart, Target, B&N, Borders, and indie booksellers. Or, buy online through HarperCollins.

Watch the book trailer.

For 10 years, Loren Rhoads was the editor of the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity which published true confessions of the strange and unusual kind.

Now, a collection some of the best essays she hand-picked herself, called Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual, is due from Scribner Press on September 29, 2009! It will feature 40 nonfiction essays from the ten issues of Morbid Curiosity magazine with subjects like 'road kill', 'blood drinking' 'creepy dolls' 'voodoo' and even 'zombie salmon'. Check out the book's trailer...

Bram Stoker-award winning author Sarah Langan has officially partnered with author James Rollins to write The Blood Gospel Series, Books I-III for publication in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Rollins writes thrillers, and Langan straight horror. What will this series be about?

"I am delighted that James Rollins selected me as a writing partner," says Langan, "and expect to learn a lot from him. He's not just talented, but a good egg, and I can't wait to get started. The premise for this series will blow your mind!"

We'll keep you posted on more news!

Actress/writer Barbie Wilde, best known for her performance as the one female Cenobite in the Hellraiser film series, has a new story called 'Sister Cilice' featured in the new anthology Hellbound Hearts - twenty-one tales inspired by Clive Barker’s Hellraiser universe (out Sept 29, 2009 in bookstores.) The merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites is the setting for these stories.

Edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan, the anthology also features the work of six other female authors including Kelley Armstrong and Sarah Langan...

What's cooler than two 13-year-olds who write sci-fi novels and have devoted their lives to help other kids with learning disorders? When those kids are girls.

Since they could walk, the L.A.-born Winner Twins have been wowing readers with their Strand series of sci-fi novels books (the newest is Extinction's Embrace) and are a huge hit on the Jr. & Sr. High School speaker’s circuit, appearing before over 100,000 kids in the past year alone...

Awesome horror author Sarah Langan (The Keeper, The Missing) will be on ParaWomen Radio tonight from 7-8pm, EST.

We love Langan and we love the women of The League of Extraordinary Paranormal Women, so we're excited. Listen live and submit questions!

NVF Magazine founder David Byron recently interviewed a bunch of women (including Pretty/Scary's editor Heidi Martinuzzi) for a book on chicks in horror movies called Queens of Scream: The New Blood.

Also interviewed were Brenna Lee Roth (Killer Biker Chicks, Grind House Glory), Scarlet Salem (Killer Biker Chicks), Bianca Barnett (Albino Farm), Nicole Kruex (aka Nikki Homicide K, Zen: Hunter), Rachel Grubb (13 Hours in a Warehouse), Seregon O’Dassey (Ghost Watcher 2, False Face), Evie Effects, April Monique Burril (Chainsaw Sally), and Monique Dupree (Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned) plus a special guest appearance by former Hammer Films starlet Ingrid Pitt, whose portrayal of Countess Dracula gave a new meaning to the term Scream Queen long before it became popular for future generations of horror film fans.

The book will be out in July 2009 from BearManor Media

Author Pamela K. Kinney's new nonfiction ghost book, Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales is now available from Schiffer Publishing and can be found in any old Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Books A Million, Borders, and Target.com!

Virginia is unique with haunting myths, legends, and yes, even true stories that may sound like legends...

Author/Filmmaker Lia Scott Price's latest book is Letters to Mother, which describes the disjointed thoughts of a female serial killer who was abused by her mother as a child, and who targets anyone who reminds her of her mother.

Price has also produced a DVD version with film shorts adapted from the book. This is Price's 6th horror book. Her previous vampire/supernatural serial killer novels include The Guardian, Revenant, Dominion, Ghostwrite, and Resurrection.

Letters to Mother (Book) Letters to Mother (DVD)