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Guest Post: 4 Spine Chilling Coming-of-Age Novels by Horror Writers of Color
4 Spine-Chilling Coming-of-Age Novels by Horror Writers of Color
by Desiree Villena
Horror is haunted by a reputation for whiteness. H.P. Lovecraft’s well-known racism, for instance, still casts a shadow as vast as his outsized influence over the genre. Meanwhile, an enduring stereotype holds that characters of color are inevitably the first to succumb to any slasher or ghoul.
Horror writers of color have long grappled with this troubling legacy as they produce groundbreaking work that takes the genre in...
Friday Feels- May 8th, 2020
Happy Friday Night Worms! You know it’s classic horror month here at Night Worms, so I wanted to do something a little different today! If you’re anything like me, you’re probably the only reader in your family. Since my family is all in isolation right now, they keep asking me what horror books they should read while they’re bored in the house. So I decided to make this little list of books you or your family might like if they like any of these (what I consider to...