Welcome to Women in Horror Month for 2025.
For all of March, come back here to see a daily spotlight post for incredible women in the horror industry. While these posts will mostly be dedicated to indie horror authors, you will also find some mainstream authors, artists, actresses and other creatives in the horror industry!
Also, be sure to check the Facebook Books of Horror group all month long for more events!
Meet this incredible woman of horror: Tamika Thompson
Tamika is the author of UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED (Unnerving Books), which is the Horror WINNER in the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and which Publishers Weekly calls "powerful," "unsettling," and "terrifying," as well as author of SALAMANDER JUSTICE (Madness Heart Press).
She is co-creator of the artist collective POC United, and fiction editor for the group's Foreword INDIES Award-winning anthology, GRAFFITI. Her work has appeared in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.
Her long fiction tale, “Bridget Has Disappeared,” was translated to Italian for Independent Legions’ Molotov Magazine, her story, “The Sand Ate Her,” is available in audio format at the Creepy podcast, and her tale, “The God Bot,” is forthcoming in Penumbric.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hosts her own blog and newsletter, Tamika Talks Terror.
Learn more at the links below:
Tamika's Website:
Tamika's Amazon Page:
Recent Books:
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