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.

September 1

An Immaculate Deception
By Isabela Livino
Set in 1870s Brazil, a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong.
Note: UK Release is on September 3.

Mothersucker
By Kim Bohyun
Translated by Archana Madhavan
A vampire who targets men who have harmed women—in the present, past, and future—and the woman-led task force entrusted with solving the murders.
Note: UK Release is on October 22.

The Patron Saint of White Menageries: Stories
By Lauren T. Davila
In a debut magical-realism collection, Davila cracks Los Angeles open to reveal a kaleidoscope of unlikely heroines, talents, and dreams.

All the Hidden Places
By Cadwell Turnbull
Fourteen stories. Unseen places that lie just within, beneath, beyond our reality.

Asmodeus
By Rita Indiana
Translated by Achy Obejas
Asmodeus is a supernatural noir, riotous thriller, and searing portrait of a nation grappling with its complicated past.

Tell The Ghosts I’m Gone
By Kalynn Bayron
A paranormal YA mystery about a group of teens with unique – and potentially deadly – gifts.

Before You Were Anne
By Emiko Jean
After a woman is killed and her daughter vanishes, detective Chelsey Calhoun uncovers a legacy of violence and survival that spans from Japan to Seattle.
September 8

Daughter of Rot
By Rios de la Luz
Blending magical realism with dreamlike botanical horror and explores the intertwining of toxic parenting with childhood innocence.

Wickhills
By Premee Mohamed
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers, even at the threat of war.
Note: UK Release is on November 19.

Laws of Solomon
By Eriq La Salle
Part of a series but can be read as a standalone.
Solomon leaves the brutal backdrop of New York and its underworld to find peace in California. His hard-won tranquility shatters when he encounters a young boy named Gaby whose life is in danger. He must confront not only the threat closing in but the darkness he carries within.
Note: UK Release is on October 8.
September 15

Rooted
By Leopoldo Goût
One woman’s return to Mexico City digs away the layers of her forgotten past and the Aztec gods she awakened.
Note: UK Release is on November 26.

Observer
By Nicholas Russell
A disquieting, atmospheric debut horror novel about a young woman investigating her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned Nevada observatory

Sleep Well, Mommy
By Mi-ae Seo
A criminal psychologist whose interview with a serial killer has an unexpected effect on her relationship with her unnerving stepdaughter.

Mystery James Returns from the Grave
By Ally Russell
The second book in a creepy duology about Mystery James. This time, spring break takes a terrifying turn when Mystery suspects a ghost has entered her home…and refuses to leave.

American Nightmare
By Kelly McWilliams
A light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood.

We Run the Night
By Peace Mbengei
An elite, isolated Kenyan boarding school is terrorized by supernatural entities, grotesque maladies, and strange transformations in a chilling YA horror debut inspired by the urban legend of “night runners.”
September 22

Our Cut of Salt
By Deena Helm
Three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest before the secrets of the past drown them all.

Incarnate
By Alma Katsu
A terrifying reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray for the internet age.
Note: UK Release is on October 6.

Kill Your Darlings
By Yuvashri Harish
A teen girl faces the horrors of misogyny and racism—plus an evil witch and her horde of monsters.

Mazywood
By Tananarive Due
The grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood.
Sep 29

The Man of Wind and Moss
By Alex Gonzalez
A gruesome, mythology-inspired storm of witchcraft, demon curses, and millennial-age angst all wrapped in a folk horror tale about six college friends who go on a weekend getaway in the woods—and the supernatural deals they make to survive.

Night of Madness
By Ryan Douglass
Teen influencers compete in a horror movie–themed overnight competition, only to realize the real test is staying alive.
Note: UK Release is on October 22.

Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror
Edited by Cynthia Pelayo
Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with this groundbreaking anthology, where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.

The Unhaunting
By Micaiah Johnson
A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death.

The House of Gardenias
By Isabel Cañas
Despite near-constant political violence in the city and an abusive father at home, Minerva Treviño’s cowardice has kept her alive for sixteen years. But even she has a limit.
Note: UK Release is on October 1.

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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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