The Wonderfully Weird Women Writers You Should be Reading this Halloween

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The nights are drawing in, Netflix is featuring its creepiest shows, and Halloween in all of its gothic glory is very nearly upon us. While the gothic tradition has more than its fair share of virginal, swooning women designed to be rescued by men, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of women writers out there making weird fiction into something powerful. Here’s…