Horror novels by Black authors like Tananarive Due and Victor LaValle blend genre and the reality of race in the U.S., much like the HBO show Lovecraft Country.Īs if you're entering a haunted house, you never know what you'll find within the pages of these books. Thrillers like You by Carolyn Kepnes, are terrifying because they're grounded in human evil, not fantasy. Series by Tananarive Due African Immortals (4 books) by Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating 10,918 ratings The Year's Top Horror Authors Recommend Seriously Scary Books When you want a book recommendation for a scary story, you’re better off going right to the source: authors of scary stories. Of course, not all horror stories are magical. Within the pages of these scary books, get ready for appearances from ghosts, vampires, witches, and one-of-a-kind supernatural creatures, like Pennywise the Dancing Clown in IT. Below, we've gathered a few of the best horror books of all time, from new releases like Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothicto Stephen King classics (which we limited to two). But if it's sustained terror you're looking for, nothing compares to a horror novel. Whether you're looking for a haunting short story to tell in the dark or picks for a spooky movie marathon, we've got you covered. As Halloween approaches, gather 'round for scary stories-in all their forms. Hubbard grew up in Florida, and her knowledge of the state and its history shine in this 2017 novel about a group of black friends with unusual powers on a road trip through the state.'Tis the season for major scares. This 2018 book, all one incantatory wave of a poem that seems to sweep up much of the world, won the Florida Book Awards gold medal for poetry.

Dawson directs the creative writing MFA program at the University of Tampa. This fast-paced 2015 thriller is the story of a black newspaper columnist and his white editor caught up in a terrorist plot by white supremacists.Įrica Dawson, When Rap Spoke Straight to God. Many readers know Pitts as an incisive columnist for the Miami Herald, but he writes fiction as well. This 1997 book is the first of four in her supernatural suspense African Immortals series. The Tallahassee-born Due is a prolific author of horror, fantasy, speculative fiction, historical fiction and nonfiction. Like her best-known novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, many of the stories are set in Florida, where she grew up. Hurston died in 1960, but this collection of some of her early short stories was first published this year. Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick. Related: A review of Edwidge Danticat's 'Everything Inside.'

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