## Amazing Horror by Black Authors!

If you’re ready for your next SPOOKY SCARY read, please please please let it be one of these three incredible picks.

### Recommended Books

1. **Jackal** by Erin E. Adams
2. **Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng** by Kylie Lee Baker
3. **Fever Dream** by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

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### Books Mentioned
- **Delicious Monsters** by Liselle Sambury

**Thank you to MIRA/HTP and Simon Teen for the gifted copies!**

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## Let’s Talk About Folk Horror (Round Two!)

Superstitions, isolation, rituals, folkloric creatures and myths and legends… I love it all.

### Recommended Books
1. **The Salt Grows Heavy** by Cassandra Khaw
2. **Ring Shout** by P. Djèlí Clark
3. **Salt Bones** by Jennifer Givhan

**Thank you to Tor Nightfire and Little, Brown, and Company for the gifted copies!**

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## Give Me Some Cosmic Terror Any Time!!

Here are some books where the monsters (or entities) are indeed MONSTERS.

### Recommended Books
1. **The Dead Take the A Train** by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey
2. **Ring Shout** by P. Djèlí Clark
3. **A Game in Yellow** by Hailey Piper

**Thank you to Saga Press for the gifted copy!**

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## What’s Your Favorite Folkloric Creature or Superstition?

Here’s some FOLK HORROR to make your Thursday just a little bit eerier.

### Recommended Books
1. **Jackal** by Erin E. Adams
2. **The Year of the Witching** by Alexis Henderson
3. **The Only Good Indians** by Stephen Graham Jones

**Thank you to Bantam Books for the gifted copy!**

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