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...

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Friday Feels- June 19th, 2020

Happy Friday Night Worms! So, as you may have imagined, the team of Night Worms reviewers has a group chat where we all talk about books and life and... well, mainly books. We just like reading and debating over pickles, okay? It’s who we are. I digress. Anyways, two days ago, the one and only Mother of Horror, our fearless co-leader, messages the group to tell us how this book she is reading is so gross. Most of us were intrigued by a yucky book because we’re weirdos. A bunch of...

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Cover Reveal: A COMPLEX ACCIDENT OF LIFE by Jessica McHugh

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Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jessica McHugh's debut poetry collection A Complex Accident of Life combines visual art and text to create 52 pieces of Gothic blackout poetry exploring the intense passion, enigmatic nature, and transformative pleasure of life, viewed through the kaleidoscopic lens of a female horror artist.

“In A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh strikingly combines different modes of art to create a truly unique collection. This remix of a beloved work through blackout poetry shows a lot of care in every...

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Night Worms Book Party: DR. HERBERT WEST & ASTOUNDING TALES OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE by Arcana Studios, Bruce Brown and Thomas Boatwright

Time for a family-friendly Night Worms book party! We were all sent this really cool graphic novel, DR. HERBERT WEST & ASTOUNDING TALES OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, by Arcana Studios, Bruce Brown and Thomas Boatwright. Us Night Worms are all horror lovers, obviously, and most of us loved RE-ANIMATOR the film and the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette HERBERT WEST- REANIMATOR that the film was loosely based on. We all seemed to really like this one and the parental Night Worms wanted to share it with our offspring. Below...

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