To join in Women’s History Month, Monster Complex wants to share several of the women authors we’ve talked about on the site. Find out more about these ladies—plus links to find them online.

Here at Monster Complex, lots of our readers are regularly checking in for the next great urban fantasy series. Check out a list of notable female authors whose fiction combines a realistic urban setting with far-out elements like vampires, werewolves, and faeries.

There are many great Black writers that readers of horror, urban fantasy and paranormal fiction should get to know. Our list includes Helen Oyeyemi, Linda D. Addison, Tananarive Due, and lots more!

Celebrating several self-published and hybrid urban fantasy authors, including Ilona Andrews, Jessica Cage, Dan Willis, Whitney Hill, N.D. Jones, N.E. Conneely, D.M. Guay, Lindsay Buroker, and lots more!

Meet some of the most popular authors who combine the supernatural with the world out your window! Their fiction mashes together the complexities of modern life with vampires, werewolves, and other magic details.

Including L.A. Banks, Maurice Broaddus, Jessica Cage, Zoraida Córdova, Owl Goingback, Nalo Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Shweta Taneja, Kenesha Williams, and more.

Vampire fiction has captivated readers and audiences for more than a hundred years. Some of these vampire novels lean into horror or paranormal romance, while others fall in between.