Women in Horror Month is here again, that annual celebration that shines the spotlight on the contributions of all the female creators—writers, artists, movie directors, producers, special makeup artists, special effects experts, etc.—who’ve brought thrills and chills to generations of fans around the world.
To join in on the celebration, later this month we’ll be publishing The Mortal Immortal, a tale of longevity gone wrong, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author and creator of Frankenstein!
In the meantime, you can always purchase our previous Women in Horror title: White Fell—The Werewolf, by Clemence Annie Housman. Originally published in 1896 as The Were-wolf, it’s regarded by scholars as perhaps the first feminist werewolf story. In it, a beautiful woman named White Fell wanders into a snowbound village—and into the hearts of twin brothers, one of whom immediately becomes smitten by her. The other brother, however, soon grows suspicious of the enigmatic White Fell. Where did she come from? Why does she always carry an ax? And is her sudden appearance somehow related to the recent sightings of a bloodthirsty wolf in the area?He may come to regret being so inquisitive…
There’s also the Illustrated Classic Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s nineteenth-century vampire love story that features great black-and-white illustrations by Eliseu Gouseia, the artist for Lorelei: Sects and the City, A Princess of Mars, and the Pandora Zwieback comics. In Carmilla, a young woman named Laura is so desperate for a friend that when a woman her age practically turns up on the doorstep of the castle owned by Laura’s father, she thinks her prayers for companionship have been answered. But as she comes to realize, Carmilla isn’t as interested in making friends as she is in spilling blood. Regarded by literary scholars as one of the earliest lesbian vampire tales, Carmilla was an influence on author Bram Stoker in the creation of the vampire brides in his seminal novel, Dracula, and remains a popular character in fiction to this day.
White Fell—The Werewolf and Carmilla are available in print and digital formats, so visit their respective product pages for further information. If you enjoy tales of horror and empowered women, be sure to give them a read!
Today is Take Your Child to the Library Day. Founded in 2011 by children’s librarian Nadine Lipman, the annual event is held the first Saturday in February and encourages librarians to reach out to their communities and show folks just how wonderful reading can be.
Are you a horror fan? (I certainly hope so, given the site you’re currently visiting!) Well, over at the Pandora Zwieback blog—you know, the site for our resident teenaged Goth monster fighter who stars in novels I write—there are a couple of posts you might want to check out.
How amazing is this? It was in 1989, thirty years ago this very month, that StarWarp Concepts’ first leading lady of horror—the soul-stealing succubus, Lorelei—made her comic book debut in the pages of the digest-sized Lorelei One-Shot Special. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve got some exciting releases and events coming this year that you Lori fans are sure to enjoy:
Then in September comes 
Vampires of the Void
He picked a magazine off the coverlet which showed an incredibly endowed young woman in a skintight costume who was sucking the blood of a young man…. The name of the magazine—and of the young woman, apparently—was Vampirella.—Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot
So why are we so excited about this momentous occasion? Well, if you read yesterday’s post about our publishing plans this year, you know it’s because we have a project in the works that ties directly into Vampi’s anniversary. (What, you thought I was just gonna plug some other publisher’s character for no reason? You should know me better than that by now!)
Lorelei Halloween Special #1 by Steven A. Roman, Eliseu Gouveia, and Steve Geiger: 2019 is also Lorelei’s 30th anniversary, and to celebrate the occasion the creative team behind the critically acclaimed graphic novel 
Tales to Sorta Tremble By, edited by Steven A. Roman: During the 1950s, comic book publishers were required to include text pages in their releases if they wanted their publications to meet U.S. postal requirements as magazines. They solved this problem by running mini prose stories, one to two pages in length, in the comics—including the horror ones. Tales to Sorta Tremble By collects 13 of those stories, with subjects ranging from vampires and werewolves to evil killer plants and mean-tempered zombies.
I’m takin’ care of business
Chasing Danger: The Case Files of Theron Chase by Richard C. White: The popular author of Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination, Harbinger of Darkness, and For a Few Gold Pieces More takes a walk on the noirish side of dark urban fantasy with this collection of stories starring a private eye whose clientele are of the supernatural kind—werewolves, mer-folk, and the like. Think Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe meets Lev Grossman’s The Magicians—with all the strangeness that goes with it!
Blood & Iron: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 3 by Steven A. Roman: The conclusion to Pan’s first epic literary adventure brings to a head all the action from the previous novels, Blood Feud and Blood Reign. Trapped on an island of monsters and fallen angels, what can she, her maybe-kinda new boyfriend (they’re still working on the details) Javier, and their immortal-shape-shifting, monster-hunting mentor, Annie, do to prevent a horrorpocalypse? Is that even a word? Will Pan live long enough to consult a dictionary? Do they have dictionaries on monster isle? Guess we’ll all find out!
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