The Horror Evolution Will Be Colorized is NightTide Magazine’s ongoing compendium dedicated to examining Blackness in horror cinema with depth, intention, and care. Now entering its third year, the collection brings together essays, interviews, and critical analysis that explore how Black identity shapes the genre’s language of fear, survival, resistance, and imagination.

This is a space for work that understands horror as a cultural record as much as entertainment. The pieces we publish examine how Black experiences inform horror’s monsters, mythologies, and moral frameworks, and how the genre confronts violence, inheritance, desire, erasure, and endurance. We are interested in perspectives that resist flattening narratives and instead trace horror’s capacity to hold complexity, contradiction, and truth.

This year, the need for this work is unmistakable. Conversations around Blackness and Brownness in horror are not optional. They are necessary, overdue, and ongoing. NightTide remains committed to amplifying Black and Brown creatives whose voices push the genre forward and refuse easy readings of representation.

If you are driven to write with insight, clarity, and purpose, we want to hear from you. We welcome pitches that are thoughtful, critical, and rooted in lived experience, whether through essays, sharp cultural analysis, or work that reframes familiar texts in revealing ways.

Deadline for pitches is January 31st.

Pitch us through our portal here!

NightTide Magazine is dedicated to reshaping the horror landscape by amplifying historically marginalized perspectives and voices. With a focus on creators of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals with disabilities, the neurodivergent community, and those battling ageism in the genre, we celebrate a full spectrum of horror storytelling. Through thought-provoking content and a commitment to diversity, our mission is to make horror a more inclusive and representative space that reflects the world around us.

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