
Below is our recommended reading list for Fright Girl Autumn 2021.
If you'd like to suggest a book to include on the list, please see our front page.
Our challenge to you: read at least 3 books from the list below. Check back on social media to share your thoughts as you read. And don't forget to tag your posts with #FrightGirlAutumn.
Happy reading!
Books by Women of Color:
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Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due
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The Awakening of the Spirit Trilogy (Blood of my Blood, The Providence of Human Affairs, and Soulless) by Montiese McKenzie
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Cirque Berserk by Jessica Guess
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
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Root Magic by Eden Royce
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The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Books by Independent Authors:
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Six Rooms by Gemma Amor
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Boneset and Feather by Gwendolyn Kiste
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All That's Fair by S.H. Cooper
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Dismal Dreams by Red Lagoe
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Someone to Share My Nightmares by Sonora Taylor
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The House of Little Bones by Beverley Lee
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Carousel of Nightmares by Kerry E.B. Black
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Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
Books by LGBTQIA+/Nonbinary Authors:
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Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
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Mouth Full of Ashes by Briana Morgan
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The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
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The Devil’s Call by j. danielle dorne
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Transmuted by Eve Harms
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The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch
Poetry:
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The Place of Broken Things by Linda D. Addison and A. Manzetti
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The Devil's Dreamland by Sara Tantlinger
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Into the Forest and All the Way Through by Cynthia Pelayo
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A Collection of Dreamscapes by Christina Sng
Nonfiction:
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Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman
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America’s First Female Serial Killer by Mary Kay McBrayer
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The Science of Serial Killers by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
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This Morbid Life by Loren Rhoads
Anthology/Short Story Collection:
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We Are Wolves (eds. Gemma Amor and Laurel Hightower)
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Latinx Screams (ed. V. Castro)
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Women of Horror Vol. 1: Under Her Black Wings (ed. Jill Girardi)
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Women of Horror Vol. 2: Graveyard Smash (ed. Jill Girardi)
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Women of Horror Vol. 3: The One That Got Away (ed. Jill Girardi)
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Women of Horror Vol. 4: Don't Break the Oath (ed. Jill Girardi)
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Not All Monsters (ed. Sara Tantlinger)
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Slay: Stories of the The Vampire Noire edited by Nicole Givens Kurtz
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Midnight & Indigo edited by Ianna A. Small
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Wicked Women: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers edited by Trisha J. Wooldridge and Scott T. Goudsward
Short Stories:
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"Bells" by Megan Davies-Ostrom, Cosmic Horror Monthly #1