Six horror books about feminine rage

Addison Ciuchta loves writing, reading, and writing about what she reads. She has an MA in Professional Writing, a BA in English, and a lifelong love of books. In addition to Book Riot, has written for Publishers Weekly and Independent Book Review.

At Book Riot Ciuchta tagged "six horror books about feminine rage [that will] leave readers saying, Good for her!" One title on the list:

Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

Despite a rocky relationship with her own mother and her mother-in-law, Abby Lamb wants to be a mother more than anything. As a caretaker at an elderly home, Abby makes everything she does about fostering motherly skills. When her husband Ralph’s mother dies, though, he falls into a deep depression, and their perfect future is threatened. Especially after he starts to believe his mother’s ghost is haunting them. Abby will do whatever it takes to get her husband out of his despair and break the enduring hold his mother has on him, even in death.

Read about the other books on the list.

Motherthing is among Leah Rowan's six thrillers with troubled parent-child relationships.

--Marshal Zeringue