A Comprehensive List of Black Horror/Thriller/Mystery/Dark Fiction Authors
(More than the same 10 you see on these types of lists over and over)
Every year around this time, I google, “Black Horror Authors” and I pull the same six or so lists made of up of the same ten black, traditionally published authors. I’m tired. While those regulars are AMAZING, there are more of us out here writing solidly dark stories and this list will help you develop a more well-rounded list of independently as well as traditionally published, black, dark fiction writers.
Pick up a few of these titles and give yourself the creeps this season. Some Kindle editions are even FREE. If you do read a book from this list, do not forget to leave the book an Amazon or Goodreads review. For authors, reviews are EVERYTHING.
- Jean Nicole Rivers Black Water Tales: The Unwanted Me! That’s right. I write horror because I love to read it. Check out my latest novel listed above and be on the lookout for my upcoming release, To the Moon and Back.
- Brandon Massey The Quiet Ones
- Dorothy Koomson Tell Me Your Secret
- Daka Hermon Hide and Seeker (Middle grade)
- Dia Reeves Dark Side of the Moon
- L.G. Davis The Stolen Breath
- Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams
- Tiffani D. Jackson Allegedly
- L.A. Banks Minion
- Justina Ireland Dread Nation
- Wrath James White The Resurrectionist
- Danyell Hunter Jester
- Tananarive Due The Good House
- E. L. Jefferson What Do Your Fear
- Alexis Henderson The Year of the Witching
- Megan Giddings Lakewood: A Novel
- Helen Oyeyemi White is for Witching
- Octavia Butler Fledgling
- L. Marie Wood Crescendo
- Alyssa Cole When No One is Watching
- C.C. Adams But Worse Will Come
- Gracia Rich Handkerchief
- La’Quisha Brown The Haunting
- Steven Van Patten Killer Genius
- Andre Duza Technicolor Terrorists
- Steven Barnes Devil’s Wake
- A. Renee Hunt Nightmare Home
- Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, The Serial Killer
- LaTresa Payne Margo
- Pat McKanic Illusions of Paradise
- Linda Addison How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend
- V.M. Burns The Plot is Murder
- Kellye Garrett Hollywood Homicide
- Tracey Baptist The Jumbies (Middle grade)
- Carolyn Marie Wilkins Melody for Murder
- Faye Snowden A Killing Fire
- Victor LaValle The Changeling
- Walter Mosley Down the River Unto the Sea
- Valerie Wilson Wesley Dying in the Dark
- Terence Taylor Bite Marks
- Lori Titus The Bell House
- Zin E. Rocklyn The Night Sun
- Kai Leakes Sin Eaters
- Crystal Conner In the Valley of Shadows
- Eden Royce Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror
- Nicole Givens Kurtz Kill Three Birds: A Kingdom of Aves Mystery
- Kenya Moss-Dyme Prey for Me
- Chesya Burke Let’s Play White
- Dwayne Alexander Smith Forty Acres
- Kenya Moss-Dyme Daymares
- Abby Collette A Deadly Inside Scoop
- Sylvester Barzey Planet Dead
- Necole Ryse A Mistletoe Murder: A Christmas Novella
- Tnae Wilcox Not A Violent Bone and Other Stories
- Bianca Sloane What You Don’t Know
- John Edward Lawson Devil Entendre
- Pamela Samuels Young Failure To Protect
- Rachel Howzell Hall And Now She’s Gone
- Nic Joseph The Night in Question
- S.A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland
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