Nine terrifying Native American and Indigenous horror books

Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. are the editors of Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II, an Indigenous horror anthology featuring stories by acclaimed Native American and Indigenous authors.

The collection features stories by: Jessica Doe • P.C. Verrone • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Jim Terry • Jessica Johns • A.J. Eversole • Sonia Marie Barry • Shane Hawk • Stephen Graham Jones • Alicia Elliott • Mat RudeWalker • Shaawan Francis Keahna • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Jake Arrowtop • Alina Pete • Debra Magpie Earling • Joshua Whitehead • Tommy Orange • Ramona Emerson • Erica Tremblay • Kimberly Blaeser

At People magazine the editors tagged "some of their favorite horror novels written by Indigenous authors," including:

It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller

When a predatory mining company brings corporate rot into a remote Alaskan village and her sister vanishes, a young Inuk woman plunges into the Arctic dark to find her. Stalked by the kushtuka — a shapeshifting creature that wears the faces of loved ones — this novel proves how industrial greed wakes horrors far older than the colonial project of the “United States of America.”

I love how Zeller twists Alaskan Native folklore into a suffocating trap where you can’t even trust a soul. This horror debut acts like an ice pick to the nervous system: freezing, terrifying and guaranteed to make you second-guess everything sharing a room with you in the dark. —Shane Hawk

Learn about the other titles on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue