Angela must summon her own hidden gifts to face the timeless adversary stalking her in her grandmother’s house.Īvailable in print, online, and as an e-book on OverDrive. Since Angela Toussaint left her hometown under horrific circumstances, there have been more senseless tragedies, and she wonders if they are related somehow. Maryse Boudreaux, a sword wielding bootlegger, with the help of her friends Sadie, a brash sharpshooter, and Chef, a female veteran of WWI, battle against the literal demons of the Ku Klux Klan.Īvailable as an e-book and audiobook on Overdrive. Kindred by Octavia Butler (1988)ĭana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own.Īvailable in print, as an e-book and audiobook on OverDrive. Connecting horror story tropes to African American narratives didn’t start with Jordan Peele’s Get Out! African American novelists have long been writing horror and suspense books that tell distinctly African American stories. You’ll find some of the classics of the form, by masters from Octavia Butler to Colson Whitehead, on this list compiled by Gregg Moore, manager of the Stone Center Library.Īn amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight.Īvailable in print and an audiobook on OverDrive.
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