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It’s not just about Beyoncé’s "Cowboy Carter" album — this culture runs deep in L.A.’s Black communities.

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Enjoy these page-turners as we turn the page on another year

Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled member, Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is the author of the Tillie Olsen Award winner SACRED SMOKES (2018, now in its third printing) and the Electa Quinney Award winner SACRED CITY (2021), as well as the editor of THE FASTER REDDER ROAD: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones (2015), all from the University of New Mexico Press.

Shane Hawk (enrolled Cheyenne-Arapaho, Hidatsa and Potawatomi descent) is a history teacher by day and a horror writer by night. Hawk is the author of ANOKA: A Collection of Indigenous Horror, the co-editor of NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, and other short fiction featured in numerous anthologies. He lives in San Diego with his beautiful wife, Tori.

These are the best horror titles coming this Fall, from YA thrillers and spooky anthologies to ghost stories both literal and figurative.

Read a spooky story by Tiffany Morris excerpted from Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology.

An elder Mexican man makes his way to Mass in the early morning twilight of December 9, 1531. He is a peasant, a simple farmer and laborer, and he has no education. Born under Aztec rule, he is a convert to Catholicism, and each step he takes this morning is a step into history. The morning quiet ...