Is the Horror Genre Anti-Feminist?

Haunted houses as a home for feminine horror

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“I am no bird; and no net ensures me: I am a free human being with an independent will” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Unlike any other genre, there is something sinister about the way women fit into horror. As Princess Weekes writes in her article, “horror has always been concerned with the relationship…