The Black Girl Survives in This One (Flatiron Books, 2024) is “a YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end.” The anthology is edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell, and will be available next year. While you wait for that one, here are 15 YA books to explore for the Halloween season and beyond. For more YA reading, see Thrills and Chills: 30 MG & YA Books for Halloween Reading.
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1. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
Circe Moskowitz | Amberjack Publishing | October 17, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
2. The Forest Demands Its Due
Kosoko Jackson | Quill Tree | October 3, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
3. Shadow Coven (The Witchery, Book 2)
S. Isabelle | Scholastic Press | September 19, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
4. Monstrous
Jessica Lewis | Delacorte Press | September 12, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
5. There’s No Way I’d Die First
Lisa Springer | Delacorte | September 5, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
6. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Jamison Shea | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | August 29, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
7. Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight
Shelly Page | Alex Brown | Wednesday Books | August 29, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
8. Sign of the Slayer
Sharina Harris | Entangled Teen | August 29, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
9. The Dark Place
Britney S. Lewis | Disney Hyperion | August 8, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
10. I’m Not Supposed to Be in the Dark
Riss M. Neilson | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | May 9, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
11. We Don’t Swim Here
Vincent Tirado | Sourcebooks Fire | May 2, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
12. Blood Debts
Terry J Benton-Walker | Tor Teen | April 4, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
13. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
Kalynn Bayron | Feiwel and Friends | March 7, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
14. Delicious Monsters
Liselle Sambury | Margaret K. McElderry (Simon & Schuster) | February 28, 2023 | Amazon | Bookshop
15. White Smoke
Tiffany D. Jackson | HarperCollins/Tegen | September 14, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop
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