A WOMAN BUILT BY MAN, EDITED BY SH COOPER & E TURPITT

A WOMAN BUILT BY MAN
Edited by SH Cooper & E Turpitt
Cemetery Gates Media 2022
Reviewed by Mario Guslandi

There are many excellent female authors of horror fiction around and I’m fully appreciating their great contribution to the genre. A Woman Built By Man is a collage of 21 horror tales that seek to crawl under the skin and deconstruct the many ways women are built up and broken down by a patriarchal society.


The present anthology is a huge one, including twenty-one short stories, mostly interesting enough  and good enough, which makes it for a reviewer an impossibe task commenting upon each single tale.

Thus, my only choice is to mention the contributions which, in my opinion, are the most accomplished.


“Every Woman Knows This” by Laurel Hightower is an insightful tableau depicting  the complex relationship between a predator and his female prey, while  “She Sings of Pain and Sorrow” by Holly Cornetto  is an offbeat piece of fantasy about a lovely yet desperate mermaid kept prisoner in a traveling circus.

Michelle Tang provides “The Shock of Death” a quite original, intriguing story about love and death and the nature of survival after the electric chair fails , and SH Cooper contrbutes “The Cooper Girl” a tense, well told supernatural noir featuring a clever and courageous young woman.


Hoping my mentions will elicit your curiosity about the rest of the book, I wish you many hours of enjoyable, horrific reading.

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A Woman Built By Man is a collage of 21 horror tales that seek to crawl under the skin and deconstruct the many ways women are built up and broken down by a patriarchal society. And the many ways they're finally saying, "Enough."

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