We’ve compiled a list of horror media created by Black women. This list is not complete, so please feel free to add suggestions in the comments. We have not read / watched / listened to all of these but will link up our reviews where we can. This is a starting point and we’d love to see it grow and welcome all suggestions. #blacklivesmatter
NOVELS
- Minion (the Vampire Huntress Series) – LA Banks
- Necromancy – Darlene Black
- My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite | Audra’s Review | Emily’s Review | Laurie’s Review
- Grievers – adrienne marie brown
- Fledgling – Octavia E. Butler
- Kindred – Octavia E. Butler | Audra’s Review
- Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Talents – Octavia E. Butler
- I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem – Maryse Conde
- The Between – Tananarive Due | Alex’s Review | Audra’s Review | Emily’s Review | Jen’s Review | Laurie’s Review | Tracy’s Review
- The Good House – Tananarive Due | Emily’s Review | Lilyn’s Review | Tracy’s Review
- Joplin’s Ghost – Tananarive Due
- My Soul to Keep – Tananarive Due | Audra’s Review | Tracy’s Review
- Sebastian – Vanessa Dunn
- Lakewood – Megan Giddings | Audra’s Review
- The Gilda Stories – Jewelle Gomez | Emily’s Review
- The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton
- The Mystery of Drear House – Virginia Hamilton
- The Other Black Girl – Zakiya Dalila Harris
- The Year of the Witching – Alexis Henderson | Toni’s Review | Laurie’s Review
- Of One Blood – Pauline Hopkins
- Moonshine – Alaya Dawn Johnson
- Smoketown – Tenea D. Johnson
- Invisible Chains – Michelle Renee Lane | Tracy’s Review
- Affairs of the Dead (the Reanimation Files series) – A.J. Locke
- Dr. Edith Vane & the Hares of Crawley Hall – Suzette Mayr
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- Dead Corpse – Nuzo Onoh
- The Reluctant Dead – Nuzo Onoh
- The Sleepless – Nuzo Onoh
- Unhallowed Graves – Nuzo Onoh
- Boy, Snow, Bird – Helen Oyeyemi
- The Icarus Girl – Helen Oyeyemi
- White is for Witching – Helen Oyeyemi | Emily’s Review
- Everlasting: Da Eb’Bulastin – Rasheedah Prioleau
- Voodoo Season (the Marie Laveau Mystery series) – Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Crescendo: Welcome Home, Death Awaits – L. Marie Wood
- The Promise Keeper – L. Marie Wood
YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE
- The Jumbies – Tracey Baptiste | Emily’s Review
- Rise of the Jumbies – Tracey Baptiste | Emily’s Review
- Within These Wicked Walls | Lauren Blackwood
- The Forgotten Girl – India Hill Brown | Toni’s Review
- The Girl in the Lake – India Hill Brown
- Panic – Sharon M. Draper
- Hide and Seeker – Daka Herman | Alex’s Review
- Dread Nation – Justina Ireland | Jen’s Review | Emily’s Review | Audra’s Review
- Deathless Divide – Justina Ireland
- Scream Site – Justina Ireland
- White Smoke – Tiffany D. Jackson | Alex’s Review | Cassie’s Review
- Charm & Strange – Stephanie Kuehn
- Bleeding Violet – Dia Reeves
- Root Magic – Eden Royce | Jen’s Review
NOVELLAS
- Cirque Berserk – Jessica Guess | Alex’s Review | Laurie’s Review | Audra’s Review
- Mixtape for the Apocalypse – Jemiah Jefferson
- Monstrous Domesticity – RJ Joseph
- And This Is How to Stay Alive – Shingai Njeri Kagunda
- Remote Control – Nnedi Okorafor | Audra’s Review
- Flowers for the Sea – Zin E. Rocklyn | Laurie’s Review
- The Night Sun – Zin E. Rocklyn | Tracy’s Review
GRAPHIC NOVELS
- Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation – Octavia Butler, adapted by Damien Duffy | Audra’s Review
- Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation – Octavia Butler, adapted by Damien Duffy
- After the Rain – Nnedi Okorafor
POETRY COLLECTIONS
- How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend – Linda D. Addison | Alex’s Review | Emily’s Review | Toni’s Review | Audra’s Review
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
- Let’s Play White – Chesya Burke | Emily’s Review | Tracy’s Review | Audra’s Review
- …and They All Lived Happily Ever After – Crystal Connor
- Tales of a Numinous Nature: A Short Story Collection – Violette L. Meier
- Daymares – Kenya Moss-Dyme | Emily’s Review
- Skin Folk – Nalo Hopkinson
- Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror – Eden Royce
- Creepy Crawlers: An Anthology of Spine-Tingling Terror – Cinsearae S.
SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES
- Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire – ed. Nicole Givens Kurtz
- Sycorax’s Daughters – ed. Kinitra Brooks, PhD, Linda D. Addison & Susanna Morris, PhD
- The Grotesquerie – ed. Eden Royce
- Black Magic Women – ed. Sumiko Saulson | Emily’s Review | Toni’s Review | Audra’s Review
MIXED ANTHOLOGIES & COLLECTIONS
- The Place of Broken Things – Linda D. Addison & Alessandro Manzetti
- Dark Dreams ed. Brandon Massey
- Voices from the Other Side ed. Brandon Massey
- Whispers in the Night ed. Brandon Massey
NONFICTION
- Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror – Dr. Kinitra Brooks
- Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present – Robin R. Means Coleman
- She Bites Back: Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011 – Kendra R. Parker
- 100+ Black Women in Horror – Sumiko Saulson
- Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul – Leila Taylor
- African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places – Maisha L. Wester
MOVIES
Below is a link to a full list of movies by black women horror filmmakers:
HORROR MOVIES WITH BLACK WOMEN IN LEADING ROLES
- Antebellum
- Bad Hair
- Candyman (2021)
- Escape Room
- Ganja and Hess
- His House
- In Fabric
- Into the Dark: Pure
- Kindred
- Knives & Skin
- Little Monsters
- Ma
- The Perfection
- Sweetheart
- Tragedy Girls
- US
- Zombi Child
DOCUMENTARY
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
YOUTUBE
WEB SERIES
- Surviving created by Reagan Gomez
- Shuga Brown, the Demon Hunter – Mika Madness
- MisSpelled created by Lindsey McDowell
- Bwitches created by Johanna Middleton & Martine Moore
PODCASTS
- Sex & Horror Podcast – Dicey Grenor & Chantell Renee
- Nightlight – Tonia Thompson
- Black Women Are Scary
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