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Leave the Lights On: BIPOC Halloween Horror, from Multcolib

Dare to read these richly imagined horror stories by Black, Indigenous and authors of color.

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  • Out There Screaming

    An Anthology of New Black Horror

    For this electrifying anthology, horror movie director Peele (Get Out: The Annotated Screenplay) brings together 19 Black authors to "give us their Sunken Places.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023] — FICTION OUT 2023
  • A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow.
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025. — FICTION JONES 2025
  • Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, two siblings face a new threat where their lives-and reality-hang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : St. Martin's Griffin, 2025. — FICTION VIEL 2025
  • "Agreeing to one final job -- hijacking a cartel's cash shipment before it reaches Mexico, hitman Mario, to salvage what's left of his family, travels across the border and back with two other men whose hidden motivations are laid bare alongside…
    Book, 2022New York : Mulholland Books : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — FICTION IGLESIAS 2022
  • A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. (Novelist)
    Book, 2022New York : Bantam Books, [2022] — FICTION ADAMS 2022
  • In 1915, Adelaide sets out for Montana, where she hopes to bury her past after her secret sin killed her parents.
    Book, 2023New York : One World, [2023] — FICTION LAVALLE 2023
  • A cult horror director asks for help to shoot the missing scene from his magic film, and inadvertently awakens something dangerous.
    Book, 2023New York : Del Rey, [2023] — FICTION MORENOGAR 2023
  • Taaqtumi

    An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories

    Taaqtumi is an Inuktitut word that means 'in the dark' and the Arctic has its share of darkness. From zombie viruses to post-apocalypse in the far North, these stories will chill.
    Book, 2019Iqaluit, Nunavut : Inhabit Media, [2019] — FICTION TAAQTUMI 2019
  • It Came From the Closet

    Queer Reflections on Horror

    This collection of essays by queer writers reflects on LGBTQIA+ characters in horror film, from Hitchcock to HALLOWEEN.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2022. — 791.43616 I881 2022
  • Tempest Landry is shot by police and must plead his case to enter heaven.
    Book, 2008Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2008, ©2008. — FICTION MOSLEY
  • A harrowing satire about a society that treats Blackness as an aberration.
    Book, 2019New York : One World, [2019] — FICTION RUFFIN 2019
  • After a tragedy drove him away ten years ago, a man returns to Wounded Sky Nation to find the community in chaos.
    Book, 2017[Winnipeg, Manitoba] : Highwater Press, [2017] — y ROBERTSON 2017
  • A powerful new drug is making its way to the streets -- Glow contains the blood of the immortals, and is said to heal any illness, but why is a powerful sect hunting and killing the Glow peddlers?
    Book, 2009New York : Washington Square Press, [2009] — FICTION DUE 2009
  • After her son commits suicide, Angela Toussaint returns to the family home where the suicide took place, and discovers an evil force that is driving locals to acts of violence.
    Book, 2003New York : Atria Books, ©2003. — FICTION DUE 2003
  • Monster hunters, Harlem, graphic novel. What could be better?
    Graphic Novel, 2019Portland, OR : Image Comics, 2019. — GN WALKER 2019
  • If you like some science with your horror, check out this tale of the disasters caused by quantum physics' instability.
    Book, 2012New York : Vertical, ©2012. — FICTION SUZUKI 2012
  • When med student Hale is called home by his ailing mother on Halloween night, he and a group of friends are trapped in an inescapable cycle of violence.
    Book, 2006San Francisco : MacAdam/Cage, ©2006. — FICTION JONES