Notable quote:
“My paternal grandmother was a big horror fan. I remember as a kid curling up beside her on the couch to watch b-movies. They scared the heck out of me. Then I moved on to the horror novels she read. Even though she probably would have given me permission, I would sneak them. I felt like I was doing something wrong. I was the rare ten-year-old reading The Exorcist, Amityville Horror, and Jaws. Flowers in the Attic has an incest scene that made me drop the book.”
(From an interview with Little Miss Zombie, 2011)
You’d be hard pressed to find any writer that can give Extreme Horror veteran Wrath James White the shivers, but frequent collaborator Monica J. O’Rourke frequently does that–and not just when they’re working on something together. Her works have been featured in magazines such as Postscripts, Nasty Piece of Work, Fangoria, Flesh & Blood, Nemonymous, and Brutarian, and anthologies such as The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra, The Best of Horrorfind, Strangewood Tales, and Darkness Rising. With Wrath, she wrote Poisoning Eros I and II, and she lives in upstate NY. Pay attention to this Woman of Horror–her work is some of the most unique stuff out there in the genre now.
Interesting interviews:
Little Miss Zombie (2011)
What to Read First: Suffer the Flesh
Notable Works:
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Suffer the Flesh (Biting Dog Publications)
Poisoning Eros (with Wrath James White)
Experiments in Human Nature
Fun Facts:
* Most people are shocked that she writes “like a guy” as there are few women writing in the Extreme Horror subgenre.
* Some of her favourite female horror writers are Elizabeth Massie, Poppy Z. Brite and Charlee Jacob.
* Also likes the works of Teri Jacobs, Sèphera Girón, Lisa Mannetti, and Charlaine Harris’s “Sookie Stackhouse” series.
* Recommends P. D. Cacek’s story “Metalica” (ladies, consider yourself warned–this one is graphic).
* Cites Stephen King as the main reason she got into writing horror and counts Clive Barker, Jack Ketchum and Dennis Lehane as some of her other favourites.
* Inspired by the works of such Extreme Horror scribes as Edward Lee, John Skipp, and Richard Laymon
Career Highlights:
* Edited the following anthologies:
Decadence
Decadence 2
Dreaming of Angels (with Gord Rollo)
Fear of the Unknown (with Kfir Luzzatto)
Royal Aspirations III.
What she’s working on now: A post-apocalyptic vampire novel and a Nephilim novel among other projects.
Find her on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. You can also find her on Smashwords.
