Black Horror: Canonical Voices from Then to Now

Edited by award-winning writer, community organizer and educator Maurice Broaddus and scholar, professor and award-winning author Dr. Chesya Burke, with an introduction by Dr. Burke, Black Horror: Canonical Voices from Then to Now is a landmark anthology offering the evolution of Black American literary horror while boldly imagining its future. The stories within recognize the legacy of Black horror, its literary milestones, cultural roots, and innovative voices, while pushing the genre into new, daring territory. Authors featured in the anthology include: Tananarive Due, P. Djeli Clark, Linda D. Addison, Brandon Massey, Justina Ireland, Jewelle Gomez, Sheree Renee Thomas, Wrath James White and Victor Lavalle. It also includes a small selection of stories chosen from open submissions. This book revels in the power of horror to unsettle, illuminate, or transform, while drawing from Black American cultural histories, mythologies, and lived experiences; it will surprise you with fresh nightmares, folklore, and futures, honoring the past while writing fearlessly toward tomorrow.

The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Maurice Broaddus (Co-Editor) is a librarian, editor, and community Afrofuturist, with over a dozen novels and over 100 short stories in print. As an editor, he’s worked on the Dark Faith series, Streets of Shadows, the 'People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror' issue of Nightmare Magazine, and special issues of Apex Magazine and Fireside Magazine. Currently, he’s the special editor at Apex Magazine.

Dr. Chesya Burke (Co-Editor and Introduction) has been called brilliant, diabolical, and relentlessly steadfast when it comes to social issues. She admits, not-so-reluctantly, that she can be one, or all, of these things depending on the circumstances. Full of Kentucky grit and ambition, she holds four degrees, including a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Her most recent publications can be found in Out There Screaming, edited by the horror juggernaut, Jordan Peele; the Amazon Original Podcast, I Hear Fear; and on the scholarly front, her monograph, Hero Me Not, was published by Rutgers University Press.