1000 Women in Horror

1000 Women in Horror (2026)

In 2020, genre scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ book 1000 Women in Horror 1895-2018 (2020) was published. It is an exhaustive, monumental survey project, putting paid to any vestigial notion that horror cinema is made exclusively by and for men – and it also, by widening the typical focus of such studies from a set of ‘usual…