21 tales of sapphic villains, curated by April Yates and Rae Knowles with an introduction by Shirley Jackson Award Winner, Paula D. Ashe. Ashe describes the anthology best, saying, "...the sapphic villain is everything a woman shouldn’t be; predatory, selfish, vain, obsessive, driven, hedonistic, aggressive, morally ambiguous at best and immoral at worst. The sapphic villain directly challenges traditional structures and agents of power and authority. Her sapphistry challenges normative assumptions about sex and sexuality, while her villainy suggests that very few wish to resist her seductions. The sapphic villain is villainous largely because often, she must be. She must be the monster who reveals that the institutions most often charged with destroying evil, are the same ones that created it in the first place. She does all that and gets the girl (usually)." Featuring the work of: Hatteras Mange, Anastasia Dziekan, Ariel Marken Jack, Maerwynn Blackwood, Avra Margariti, Grace R. Reynolds, Evelyn Freeling, Hailey Piper, T.O. King, M.S. Dean, Chloe Spencer, Mae Murray, L.R. Stuart, Alex Luceli Jiménez, Cheyanne Brabo, Luc Diamant, Alyssa Lennander, Anya Leigh Josephs, Lindz McLeod, Caitlin Marceau, Shelly Lavigne, and a bonus tale from Eric Raglin
Authors
Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, No Gods for Drowning, The Worm and His Kings series, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose, the Cannibal King, and The Possession of Natalie Glasgow. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with articles and short fiction appearing in Tor Nightfire, CrimeReads, Library Journal, Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, Vastarien, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and various other publications. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their occult rituals are secret. Find her on Twitter via @HaileyPiperSays or at www.haileypiper.com.
Grace R. Reynolds is a native of the great state of New Jersey, where she was first introduced to the eerie and strange thanks to local urban legends of a devil creeping through the Pine Barrens. Since then, her curiosity with things that go bump in the night bloomed into creative expression as a dark poet, horror, and thriller fiction writer. When Grace is not writing she can be found dreaming up macabre scenarios inspired by the mundane realities of life. Her debut collection of poetry “Lady of The House” was released in December 2021 by Curious Corvid Publishing. Connect with Grace at www.spillinggrace.com or follow her on Instagram @spillinggrace.
Alex Luceli Jiménez (she/her) is a queer Mexican writer based in Campbell, CA. Her fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Berkeley Fiction Review, The Daily Californian, Lunch Ticket, Prismatica Magazine, Ram Eye Press, Tales From Between, Barren Magazine, Tiny Frights, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Southwest Review, Fish Barrel Review, Moonflowers & Nightshade: An Anthology of Sapphic Horror, Scissor Sisters: An Anthology of Sapphic Villains, and Ghoulish Tales. She is the author of the self-published poetry collection THIS RAMBLING HEART. Currently, she is querying a queer supernatural horror novel in the tradition of Stephen King's CARRIE. She was born and raised in southern California, and can almost certainly be found listening to Lana Del Rey, Lorde, or Phoebe Bridgers while writing and daydreaming about reforming public education. In May of 2021, she graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in comparative literature and creative writing and in May of 2024 she graduated from Alliant International University with an M.Ed and PPS credential in school counseling. She is also an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
