This is the African-American Horror Author Book List. Despite that, it is a work in progress. I’m sure there are more people out there writing horror who are of African American heritage than I have listed here.
If you know of anybody I’ve missed, please mention them in comments so I can add them in. In the meantime, this is the best place to start.
If you want to participate in the spirit of the 2010 National African American Read-In but really want to read something scary, these are the authors that will get’cha.
African American Horror Authors:
- Addison, Linda D.
- Being Full of Light, Insubstantial
- Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes
- Animated Objects
- Allen, Angela C. (ed.)
- Dark Thirst: An Anthology
- Banks, L. A. (a.k.a. Leslie Esdaile Banks)
- Minion (Vampire Huntress Legends #1)
- The Awakening (Vampire Huntress Legends #2)
- The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends #3)
- The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends #4)
- The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends #5)
- The Damned (Vampire Huntress Legends #6)
- The Forsaken (Vampire Huntress Legends #7)
- The Wicked (Vampire Huntress Legends #8)
- The Cursed (Vampire Huntress Legends #9)
- The Darkness (Vampire Huntress Legends #10)
- The Shadows (Vampire Huntress Legends #11)
- The Thirteenth (Vampire Huntress Legends #12)
- Bad Blood (Crimson Moon #1)
- Bite the Bullet (Crimson Moon #2)
- Undead on Arrival (Crimson Moon #3)
- Cursed to Death (Crimson Moon #4)
- Banks, L. A.; Due, Tananarive and Massey, Brandon R.
- The Ancestors
- Boatman, Michael
- God Laughs When You Die
- The Revenant Road
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Kindred
- Fledgling: A Novel
- Due, Tananarive
- My Soul to Keep (The African Immortals #1)
- The Living Blood (The African Immortals #2)
- Blood Colony (The African Immortals #3)
- The Between
- The Good House: A Novel
- Joplin’s Ghost
- Duza, Andre
- Dead Bitch Army
- Jesus Freaks
- Necro Sex Machine
- Fleming, Robert
- Havoc after Dark: Tales of Terror
- Fever in the Blood
- Jefferson, Jemiah
- Voice of the Blood (Voice of the Blood Series #1)
- Wounds (Voice of the Blood Series #2)
- Fiend (Voice of the Blood Series #3)
- A Drop of Scarlet (Voice of the Blood Series #4)
- Jeffries, J. M. (Pseudonym for Jacqueline S. Hamilton and Miriam Pace)
- Blood Lust
- McElroy, Alan
- The Best of Curse of the Spawn
- Massey, Brandon R.
- Thunderland
- Dark Corner
- Twisted Tales
- Within the Shadows
- The Other Brother
- Don’t Ever Tell
- Cornered
- Massey, Brandon R. (ed.)
- Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers
- Voices From The Other Side: Dark Dreams II
- Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III
- Rhodes, Evie
- Expired
- Criss Cross
- Out “A” Order
- Shepard, Javan
- Vampire of God
- White, Wrath James
- The Book of a Thousand Sins
- Succulent Prey
- The Resurrectionist
- Yaccub’s Curse
- White, Wrath James and Broaddus, Maurice
- Orgy of Souls
- White, Wrath James and Lee, Edward
- Teratologist
- White, Wrath James and Gonzalez, J. F.
- Hero
Other African American authors who may not have a book out yet but deserve to be mentioned include: Chesya Burke, L. R. Giles, Lawana Holland-Moore, Michelle Mellon.
Thank you to Maurice Broaddus and his blog Pontifications for pointing out several authors I would have otherwise missed — Andre Duza, Lawana Holland-Moore, Michelle Mellon, L. R. Giles and reminding me about Chesya Burke (I should never have forgotten her).
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