Journalist Girl W. created the Horror Tales Facebook page in 2017, sharing her personal stories of encounters with sexual harassment and misogyny at home and in the workplace. The page instantly went viral, amassing over 70,000 followers. Her first book, The Horror Tales: True Stories of Sexual Harassment and Patriarchal Oppression in the Family and the Workplace spent weeks on the non-fiction bestseller list of Books.com, Taiwan’s largest online book retailer.