This is not a deep dive, so do not go into this expecting full biographies or comprehensive lists. Instead, expect to expand your TBR. A lot.

This book is divided into a handful of sections based on subgenres of horror. There's a few page intro to each section that gives a summary of the genre and when it entered into literature. From there we are introduced to several female authors that pioneered that genre, and made it more mainstream. We are given a few pages about their lives and writing, and each author's profile ends with a Reading List that has the three categories, "Not to be missed", "Also try", and "Related work". The very last section of this book goes over each subgenre again, but instead is several pages about where that genre is going current day, and who is currently writing about it.

As expected I added a lot of books to my TBR. You'll see famous authors in here such as Ann Rice, and Shirley Jackson, but there are plenty that I had never heard of before. I like the style the book is setup in as it makes it feel like a quicker read.

Most of the time the book descriptions are spoiler free, but there was one instance where they revealed the plot twist and right after wrote, (Spoiler!), so I was quite annoyed with that. I don't care how old a book is; don't spoil it for me if you're trying to get me to read it !

Overall I found this book to be interesting, but was best consumed in small chunks to not overload my brain with all the names, titles, and dates.