Curated by Nailah King
A recurring column spotlighting the best horror, thriller, crime, and dark fiction by BIPOC authors.
Note: Book blurbs sourced from publishers/online listings.

July 7

Brokeula
By Michael J. Seidlinger
A broke vampire’s last-ditch effort to escape the bloodsucking monster of capitalism through an ill-conceived multi-level marketing scheme.
Note: UK release is on August 20

Wisdom Corner
By David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Virgil Wounded Horse returns in the sequel to Winter Counts, trying to leave behind his past as a hired enforcer. But when a revered figure on the reservation is found murdered, he is drawn back into a world he thought he’d escaped.
Note: UK release is on July 16

False Prophet
By Afsheen Farhadi
A grieving actor-turned-memoirist reimagines his mother’s encounter with Jim Jones, the deadliest cult leader of all time—the only problem is, it’s mostly all lies.
Note: UK release is on July 9
July 14

Hustle, Baby
By Priya Guns
A family of Tamil refugees who fled civil war in Sri Lanka to pursue a better life, just for it to be upended by the schemes of a self-proclaimed day-trading savant, jeopardizing everything they’ve worked so desperately to secure.
Note: UK Release is on Sept 3

The Devoted
By Catherine Cho
A young Korean woman becomes entrenched in an infamous crime organization—and the dangerous world she once sought to escape.

A Quiet Place
By Seichō Matsumoto
Translated by Louise Heal Kawai
A psychological mystery exploring the corrosive power of jealousy, guilt, and doubt.
July 15

My Monsters Ain’t Like Yours
By RJ Joseph
Monsters are personal. Monsters are universal. Our fears are much more similar than dissimilar. This means my monsters are absolutely like yours: they are our collective nightmares.
July 16

The Intrigue
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A sizzling noir about desire, danger, and greed, in which seduction is the ultimate con.
July 21

Cool Machine: A Novel
(The Harlem Trilogy #3)
By Colson Whitehead
In the finale to The Harlem Trilogy, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below.

Funerals Are for the Living
By Sami Ellis
A YA horror about a girl kidnapped by a racist cult after investigating the supernatural happenings at her sister’s gravesite
Note: UK Release is on Aug 20
July 28

West of Damnation: The Book of Malcolm
By Jalen Tellis
West of Damnation is a haunting, blood-soaked journey through faith, damnation, and the last breath of the American frontier.

It’s Under the Deck
By Jacy Morris
Phil, who discovers something dying under his deck, emitting a horrid stench. When he attempts to remove the corpse, strange things begin to happen, and Phil descends into a strange pit of insanity.
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Nailah King is a horror and crime writer and the host of Talk Your Lit Podcast, a show featuring dark fiction by BIPOC authors for the ghouls next door. She writes grim stories about haunted Black women pushed to the brink. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Feels Zine, GUTS Magazine, The Humber Literary Review, Transition Magazine, This Magazine and Carousel Magazine, and DEAD PRETTY. Nailah’s short story, “The Dead Last List” was one of the winning entries of Night Terror Magazine’s 2024 Horror for the Holidays short story competition. When she’s not writing or at the mic, she’s being bullied by her cats in Scotland.





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