03/04/2025: WOMEN IN HORROR: Paula D. Ashe

Candace Nola

Mar 42 min read

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!

TODAY WE HONOR PAULA D. ASHE!

Book cover image shows a desolate city landscape in the background with a humanoid skull in the foreground almost most entirely of teeth, colors of the background range from dark reds, light creams and dark brown and black. There is giant winged statue behind the head, also dark brown and black in color.

Meet this incredible woman of horror: Paula D. Ashe

Paula D. Ashe (she/her) is an author of dark fiction, including the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and Shirley Jackson Award-winning collection, We Are Here to Hurt Each Other.

She is a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Her award-winning collection, We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, contains twelve tales of terror. From the book synopsis: Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sacred, and no one is safe. A landscape of urban decay and human degradation, this collection finds the psychic pressure points of us all and giddily squeezes. Try to run, try to hide, but there is no escape: we are here to hurt each other.

“Poignant, grim, and startling, the remarkable stories of We Are Here To Hurt Each Other shine with luminescent dread. In this collection, Paula D. Ashe reminds us that monsters aren’t just real: they’re here and they’re human.”

—Tiffany Morris author of Green Fuse Burning and Elegies of Rotting Stars

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Here-Hurt-Each-Other-ebook/dp/B09T2G4K2Y