BIPOC or LGBTQ+ Horror
Dive into these haunted and haunting books featuring either BIPOC or LGBTQIA+ characters. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created May 2023)
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Jackal
Someone—or something—is hunting Black girls in this Appalachia-set debut. (Kirkus)
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Patricia Wants to Cuddle
Reality dating show contestants are pitted against each other and whatever lurks in the wilderness in this genre-defying fiction debut. (Kirkus)
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The Haunting of Alejandra
Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican Legend, and must summon everything she's inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
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The Queen of the Cicadas
A brutal murder becomes the catalyst for an Indigenous redemption that brings believers together to revive a nearly forgotten religion. (Kirkus)
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These Bones
In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest.As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what's left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.
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Cursed Bunny
International Booker Longlist 2022. Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.
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The Sacrifice
An island oasis turns deadly when a terrifying legend threatens to kill off visitors one by one.
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The Spite House
Eric Ross, on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow, takes a job as the caretaker of a house that is reputed to be haunted.
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Red X
Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and riots against raids to gentrification and police brutality, the survivors face inaction from the law and disinterest from society at large. But as the missing grow in number, those left behind begin to realize that whoever or whatever is taking these men has been doing so for longer than is humanly possible.
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Empire of Wild
Inspired by the Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou, a U.S. debut finds a woman reconnecting with her heritage when her missing husband reappears in the form of a charismatic preacher who does not recognize her.
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