The Femme Fatales Of Horror. Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex, in this volume at least, is an unfounded and unlikely description. From their minds and pens comes a series of macabre, twisted, tales that are anything but gentle. But as they weave their magic, usually black, and mesh you into their narrative you just know "sugar and spice and all things nice" are not likely to be what little girls really are made of and certainly not these Femme Fatales......