A PhD student travels to a rural Southern town to research a folk hymn for his dissertation. His research leads him to the discovery of a malicious cult that performs horrifying rituals.

A Black, southern house servant with internalized racism, joins her mistress on a visit to another region, where she observes Black people acting with something she abhors: autonomy.

In the mid-twentieth-century South, a black mother's greed has haunting consequences for her and her coveted son.

When a steely and fiercely independent woman opens her heart to a bizarre visitor, it uplifts their entire Southern town, until their relationship falls prey to another man’s revenge.

In small town in Iowa, a woman who works at the American Gothic House forms a relationship with a famed serial killer. She begins to think about violence, death, and who has the power to kill.

With the help and company of her master's clerk, a young slave girl runs away; however, her search for a habitable town is long and arduous, and she slowly begins to lose hope.

A troupe of graverobbing Nigerian children weave together rich tales of their deceased victims set in America, a place full of villains.

After a young Southern boy reluctantly chooses an African American girl he teased throughout school as the subject of his art project, his initial judgements about her soon fade away into understanding and empathy as he completes his assignment and learns more about the intricacies of her life.

As three Georgian women try to do right by their family and its long-lasting legacy, their strength and perseverance leads each of them to unlikely places.

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.