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Gabino Iglesias We all know 2020 was a horrific year, but it was also a superb year for horror. As the world struggled through the pandemic, readers stuck at home turned to horror narratives as much – if not more so – than they regularly do because fictional horrors offer us an escape from real ones. As always, the genre delivered. The greatness started early with Andy Davidson’s The Boatman’s Daughter, a book that seemed to be pulled from the muddy rivers of the South and carried all ...

P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout is a wildly imaginative, superbly written narrative about friendship, magic, and fighting racism that occupies a strange interstitial space between historical fiction, fantasy, and body hor­ror. It is also a smart reimagining of history that pushes current racial tensions to the forefront and forces readers to remember that bigotry should be fought in all its incarnations. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation helped the Ku Klux Klan swell its ranks and stoked the fi...