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Go Feral: Horror Novels That Break the Cage
Sometimes, the only natural response to being a woman is to simply go wild.
What does it mean to be feral? The dictionary defines it as a creature in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication. To be feral is to be untamed, rabid, and entirely unsafe; the opposite of how women are supposed to behave.
But it’s the “after domestication” part that sticks out. After all, men have been attempting to domesticate women since the dawn of civilization. Step out of line, and you might get branded hysterical, insane, unhinged. The words have changed over time, but the insinuation hasn’t. Stay domesticated, or else.
No wonder so many horror authors write feral women. It’s one thing to draw a line in the sand and mean it. It’s something else entirely to take that line and use it to suffocate anyone who dares come close. If you’ve been looking for permission to shed the chains of domesticity, these six horror novels will help you embrace your inner wild woman.
Joan is depraved. She says so herself. After all, there’s only so much trauma a woman can experience in her life before she has had enough. Men can be cruel and violent, and after witnessing a horrific act of violence, Joan hunts down the one person who can help her finally make sense of her past. But somewhere along the way, Joan stops being prey and wholly embraces her wild predator side.
MFA programs can cause anyone to lose their grasp on reality. But throw in an ultra-clique group of women, all incredibly rich with a fabled smut salon, and it’s a recipe for disaster. Not even Samantha, a scholarship student who prefers the company of her own dark imagination to others, can resist their call. The deeper she is pulled into their ritualistic world, the farther from reality Samantha gets. And when her monstrous creations collide with reality, the fallout is deadly.
There are bad nights, and then there are being back in your hometown, run into your long-lost flame, hit an animal with your car only to get attacked by an animal bad nights. Somehow Rory survives the attack. But as she heals, she notices that she’s changing. There’s a new wildness inside and it’s desperate to claw its way out.
When Abitha comes to a Puritan colony, she is betrothed to a stranger. She’s feisty and spirited, so of course, when he dies under mysterious circumstances, suspicion falls on her. Luckily, or perhaps, unluckily, a powerful spirit was woken nearby. And when the villagers cry witchcraft, the only reasonable response is to go … absolutely feral.
Irina takes explicit photos of average-looking men. But she doesn’t do it for the art. At least, not entirely. She wants things from these men. Things that she will take whether they are given or not. And when she’s offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, her obsession will reach terrifying new heights.
Ren Yu’s life revolved around swimming. Her day starts and ends in the pool, each stroke taking her closer to being scouted, getting a scholarship, making it into a good school, and finally earning her parents love and her coach’s pride. But the more time she spends in the water, the less time she wants to spend on land. And when she realizes that her only future is becoming a mermaid, she is hellbent on making it happen—no matter how much blood she needs to spill to do it.
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