Recs if you like The Angel of Indian Lake...

horror books written by indigenous authors

Call me Ishmael for this is my white whale

A homage to Geo Rutherford (geodesaurus) on Instagram, and her endlessly entertaining annual series about haunted hydrology. Happy Spooky Lakes month to all who celebrate.

Wide definition of horror | story collections included if at least one was written by an Indigenous author | mostly authors from Turtle Island (North America)

We think of summer as the season of light, but shadows are longest when the sun is highest. It is the time of the year when the woods grow too thick to see through, the water grows too dark to see into, and the heat makes the mind play tricks. From the rotting porches of the South to the blood-stained cabins of the North... We call them the Summer Nightmares.

So far these men: can write women characters with depth, don’t enact needless sexual violence on their characters, and aren’t irl monsters. Also their writing is good.

Fiction Stories based on Indigenous/American Indian/Native American culture.

thrillers (potentially horrors as well) featuring the paranormal - ghosts and ghouls, psychic powers, things that are not able to be explained the way Scooby Doo and the gang do, by pulling the mask off a creepy dude.

My unread list of GCA 2024