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Be a Dear: Trad Wife Horror
Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Butler
The push to maintain gendered roles in and outside of the home is nothing new; however, in the era where Roe v. Wade has been overturned, "trad wives" are trending on TikTok, and women's roles in the traditional workforce are shrinking, we are seeing a resurgence of suburban nightmares in the Horror genre. How do current events shape these stories? How have modern narratives destabilized or reinforced the mad housewife archetype? What can we learn from these works of fiction that seem all too real?
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Grace R. Reynolds

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GRACE R. REYNOLDS is an American speculative fiction writer. She was raised in New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University. Having lived in seven states, she currently calls Maryland “home,” where she writes dark fiction and poetry. In addition to her short fiction, she is... Read More →
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Chloe Spencer

Minnesota native Chloe Spencer is an award winning writer, indie gamedev, and filmmaker. She is the author of multiple sapphic horror novellas, novels, and short stories. In her spare time she enjoys playing video games, trying her best at Pilates, and cuddling with her cats. She... Read More →
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Sarah Langan

Sarah Langan is the three-time Bram Stoker Award Winning author of the novels Trad Wife (2026) A Better World (2024), Good Neighbors (2021), Audrey's Door (2009), The Missing (2007), and The Keeper (2006). She works in prose and film and lives in Los Angeles.
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Catlyn Ladd

Writer
Catlyn Ladd loves alliteration, the poetic slip of similar sounds through throat and tongue. She blends metaphors and archetypes from the shadow self, illuminating the monsters, beautiful and horrifying, that gestate there. Her speculative fiction has been published in over a dozen... Read More →
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Saratoga Schaefer

author of SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP and TRAD WIFE
(they/them) author of SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP and TRAD WIFE, as well as the upcoming THE LAST TIME WE DROWNED and A THOUSAND MONSTROUS FORMS.
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Wendy Dalrymple

Wendy Dalrymple loves to explore the beauty in horrific things. Wendy is a Florida-based author of feminist #pinkhorror, gothic and romance novels published both independently and with small presses. She is the author of Birthday Party Demon, a nostalgic YA novella and Credenza, a... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Butler
  Horror Genre and Media
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