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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.

1. 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.
2. Brandon Massey            The Quiet Ones
3. Dorothy Koomson         Tell Me Your Secret
4. Daka Hermon                 Hide and Seeker (Middle grade)
5. Dia Reeves                      Dark Side of the Moon
6. L.G. Davis                        The Stolen Breath
7. Jewell Parker Rhodes    Voodoo Dreams
8. Tiffani D. Jackson          Allegedly
9. L.A. Banks                      Minion
10. Justina Ireland               Dread Nation
11. Wrath James White      The Resurrectionist
12. Danyell Hunter              Jester
13. Tananarive Due            The Good House
14. E. L. Jefferson                What Do Your Fear
15. Alexis Henderson         The Year of the Witching
16. Megan Giddings            Lakewood: A Novel
17. Helen Oyeyemi             White is for Witching
18. Octavia Butler               Fledgling
19. L. Marie Wood              Crescendo
20. Alyssa Cole                    When No One is Watching
21. C.C. Adams                    But Worse Will Come
22. Gracia Rich                    Handkerchief
23. La’Quisha Brown         The Haunting
24. Steven Van Patten        Killer Genius
25. Andre Duza                   Technicolor Terrorists
26. Steven Barnes              Devil’s Wake
27. A. Renee Hunt               Nightmare Home
28. Oyinkan Braithwaite   My Sister, The Serial Killer
29. LaTresa Payne              Margo
30. Pat McKanic                  Illusions of Paradise
31. Linda Addison              How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend
32. V.M. Burns                    The Plot is Murder
33. Kellye Garrett               Hollywood Homicide
34. Tracey Baptist               The Jumbies (Middle grade)
35. Carolyn Marie Wilkins   Melody for Murder
36. Faye Snowden              A Killing Fire
37. Victor LaValle               The Changeling
38. Walter Mosley               Down the River Unto the Sea
39. Valerie Wilson Wesley  Dying in the Dark
40. Terence Taylor              Bite Marks
41. Lori Titus                       The Bell House
42. Zin E. Rocklyn               The Night Sun
43. Kai Leakes                    Sin Eaters
44. Crystal Conner             In the Valley of Shadows
45. Eden Royce                   Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror
46. Nicole Givens Kurtz    Kill Three Birds: A Kingdom of Aves Mystery
47. Kenya Moss-Dyme       Prey for Me
48. Chesya Burke               Let’s Play White
49. Dwayne Alexander Smith Forty Acres
50. Kenya Moss-Dyme Daymares
51. Abby Collette A Deadly Inside Scoop
52. Sylvester Barzey Planet Dead
53. Necole Ryse A Mistletoe Murder: A Christmas Novella
54. Tnae Wilcox Not A Violent Bone and Other Stories
55. Bianca Sloane What You Don’t Know
56. John Edward Lawson Devil Entendre
57. Pamela Samuels Young Failure To Protect
58. Rachel Howzell Hall And Now She’s Gone
59. Nic Joseph The Night in Question
60. S.A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland