Try our Advanced SearchShort stories in the genre Black Gothic
Black Gothic categorizes stories that have a mix of horror mystery, and dealing with the supernatural in an inseparable way. These elements are all contextualized within the black experience, meaning the situations and scenarios that any person from the African Diaspora go through all whilst being accentuated by these key elements.
Listing 7 stories.
In New Orleans, two sisters survive Hurricane Katrina, but one is left unalterably damaged by the storm.
A Nigerian mother's singing fends off a demonic family curse——until one day she is unable to sing any longer.
A traumatic incident changes a boy's baby brother, straining relationships within the boy's family as a whole.
A writer is drawn into a dangerous love triangle with a haunting, immortal spirit in contemporary San Francisco.
In an alternate America, white people allow demons to possess them in order to help them keep Black people out of their communities. A reporter researches a famous exorcist and activist, recording his last heroic act against a town full of demons.
A queer Black vampire-hunting couple takes on a job in the Victorian-era English countryside.
A free black man in the late eighteenth century knows that his enslaved companions envy his liberty — but he soon learns just how much they're willing to sacrifice for their own freedom.