Indigenous Voices in Horror

For our January Readalong, we are reading Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. (Join us over on our discord.) Today we are offering a list of additional Indigenous Voices in Horror for you to read after Moon of the Crusted Snow.

These books are horror, horror adjacent, or contain horrific subject matters. This is not a definitive list so be sure to add your recommendations in the comments! We also invite you to check out these authors’ other works.

Oh the Horror!

Owl Goingback:  Crota

Cassie Hart: Butcherbird

Shane Hawk: Anoka 

Stephen Graham Jones: Night of the Mannequins

Jacy Morris: The Drop

Andrea L Rogers: Man Made Monsters

Erika T. Wurth: White Horse

Speculative Fiction With Dark Themes

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle: Even As We Breathe 

Cherie Demaline: Empire of Wild

Louise Erdich: The Sentence 

Darcie Little Badger: Elatsoe 

Devon A. Mihesuah: The Hatak Witches 

Rebecca Roanhorse: Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) 

Dennis E Staples: This Town Sleeps

David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts 

Daniel H. Wilson: Robopocalypse #1 

When Your Literary Fiction Bleeds

Kelly Jo Ford: Crooked Hallelujah

Brandon Hobson: The Removed

Tiffany McDaniel: Betty

Tommy Orange: There There

Real Life is More Horrific Than Fiction

Tanya Taga: Split Tooth

David Tromblay: As You Were

Elissa Washuta: White Magic 

Viscerally Poetic!

Robert J Conley: The Witch of Goingsnake: And Other Stories

Natalie Diaz: Postcolonial Love Poem

Jake Skeets: Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

Horror Collections

Nathan Nilgan Noodin Adler: Ghost Lake 

Kali Fajardo-Anstine: Sabrina & Corina

Elizabeth LaPensée: A Howl: An Indigenous Anthology of Wolves, Werewolves, and Rougarou by 

Mae Murray: Book of Queer Saints

Sloan Leong: Death in the Mouth: Original Horror by People of Color

Elizabeth LaPensée: Deer Woman: An Anthology

Joshua Whitehead: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Aviaq Johnston: Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories

Morgan Talty: Night of the Living Rez: Stories

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