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Diverse Horror

The horror genre shows us what we are afraid of, and the best stories serve up scares and illuminate the anxieties that plague a collective culture. There is no better way to discover new frights than reading diversely!

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  • When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty…
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024] — YOON
  • Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury, 2023. — YA TRAN
  • As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters--her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, 2023. — CANAS
  • When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been…
    Book, 2022New York, New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. — YA JACKSON
  • Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: Other people…
    Book, 2022New York : Nightfire, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022.
  • Queer Little Nightmares

    An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

    A striking and playful anthology of fiction and poetry that removes queer monsters from the subtext and places them front and centre The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting…
    Book, 2022Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022. — 810.8092 QUE
  • In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the…
    Book, 2022London : Hogarth, 2022. — ENRIQUEZ
  • Out There Screaming

    An Anthology of New Black Horror

    A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A…
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023] — OUT
  • Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for…
    Graphic Novel, 2019San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, LLC, 2019. — ITO
  • Never Whistle at Night

    An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology : Are You Ready to Be Un-settled?

    Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it…
    Book, 2023Toronto : Random House Canada : McClelland & Stewart, 2023. — NEVER
  • Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her small, one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the…
    Book, 2023Toronto : HarperCollins, [2023] — JOHNS
  • In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, [2022] — CANAS
  • A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. It's the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back…
    Book, 2021New York : Nightfire, Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2021. — KHAW
  • Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier…
    Book, 2021New York : Saga Press, 2021. — JONES
  • From The Yonder

    A Collection of Horror from Around the World

    Various Authors
    A collection of horror short stories based on legends and tall-tales from throughout the World. From India and the coasts of Albania to the wilds of North America, these original stories bring to life old tales of darkness and horror. Featuring the…
    eBook, 2020War Monkey Publications, LLC, 2020
  • Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans-- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition." Now,…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Scribner, 2020. — BAZTERRI
  • In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of…
    Book, 2020New York : Amulet Books, 2020. — POPOVIC
  • In this dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk.…
    Book, 2020New York : Tordotom Book, 2020. — CLARK
  • After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband,…
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020] — MORENOGA
  • Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home - he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. Yu-jin soon discovers her…
    Book, 2018New York : Penguin Books, 2018. — JEONG