Let’s get something out of the way here first: today is Indigenous People’s Day. If you don’t respect that, think that we need to return it to Columbus Day or have any other ignorant things to say about it, kindly unsubscribe and gtfo.

Now that that’s settled, I’m going to give you some recs of indigenous horror authors you should be reading if you haven’t discovered them already.

This one is obvious for me. I think Jacy’s writing is natural, powerful, and effusive towards life. It’s also unabashed in its “I will hurt you”-ness. Don’t want to feel uncomfortable about how this country has treated indigenous folks? Too bad. You will and you should. Want to read some epic horror that is all kinds of weird, grievous, and delightfully different? You should be reading Jacy Morris.

No, not everyone on this list is going to have the last name “Morris,” but there are definitely two very talented authors that share that last name who aren’t at all related. Tiffany’s work is bolstered by the glory and terror of nature. It’s passionate and poetic, dark and tangled. Messy. Beautiful. Political and potent. It’s the kind of work you want swimming in your veins and in your mind when you look outside. It makes you want to return to green places, to the spaces between the trees and their roots.

Family, identity, and horror. Shane Hawk is often referred to as one of the OG authors behind the Indigenous Horror movement that started in 2020, first with his short story collection, Anoka, and second with his best-selling anthology that he edited, Never Whistle At Night. Shane’s work isn’t afraid to tear at the open wounds about understanding our own lineages, about coming to terms with loss and that gaping hole that is finding out who you truly are or what you’ve been afraid to become.

And there are so, so, so many more. This last image doesn’t do them all justice but it gives you a few more names that you might already be familiar with that you should absolutely read.

Read Indignenous horror.

That’s all for now. Be back soon, friends.

-Kat