African American Ghost

Three years ago, on Halloween, Kindle lost her fiancé, LP (and her brother Kelvin), in a fatal car accident. Left behind to do life alone, Kindle lives every waking moment, thinking of her one true love while raising their child. Dreading the fun and spooky holiday of ghosts, jack-o'-lanterns, & trick or treat, Kindle strives to stay lifted for the sake of her daughter who enjoys everything about the particular time of the fall season. The love Kindle has for LP never died. When asked what she would do if had the chance to see him again, Kindle claims she would do anything. The only thing ...

DEAD MEN DON'T RUN PRIVATE ARMIES IN THE GULF OF GUINEA. The last confirmed sighting of Colonel Tobias Caine was a body double burned to ash in a Sahel depot. Case closed. Killed in action. Six months later, former Delta Force operative Idris Okonkwo takes a routine security contract on an offshore oil rig in Block Fourteen, specifically to disappear. He wasn't supposed to ask questions about the dark vessels slipping past the platform at night. But when a quiet port rumor places his ruthlessly methodical former mentor alive and commanding an unregistered paramilitary fleet, Idris can't ...

Four lifelong friends Anna, Casey, Tina, and Mattie escaped to an isolated log cabin hidden within the misty mountains of Chattanooga, Tennessee. What was meant to be the ultimate birthday celebration, and Halloween weekend getaway, quickly spirals into something dreadful. Soon after their arrival, as the sun begins to set, something malevolent within the cabin awakens. When a cryptic note appears on the mantle, the women realize nothing about the cabin is what it seems. Trapped inside and cut off from the world, they’re forced to play a series of supernatural, sadistic games led by a ...

In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber...

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who...

She planned a peaceful trip to Japan. Instead, she woke up trapped in a mansion where women are collected like trophies. And the only one who can help her escape… is a ghost. After breaking up with her immature ex, Zenelle was supposed to find peace on a solo trip to Japan. But before she even makes it to the airport, she’s snatched up and wakes up trapped in a creepy, old mansion-turned-club called Haunt.The place is run by a powerful figure who kidnaps women to keep them “fresh” for his twisted Halloween parties, where rich elites indulge in whatever they want. It doesn’t take ...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER “I'm obsessed.” —Ali Hazelwood “One of the most compelling dark romances I’ve read in ages.” – Tia Williams What my eyes are showing me can’t be possible. Can’t be real. Because if they are, then I have to accept that Julian Conrad has been alive...

When two estranged sisters inherit a home possessed by the horrors of its dark past, they must work together to survive in this viscerally chilling Southern gothic novel from the critically acclaimed author of This Cursed House. Do not go into the attic, the note warned. But that’s exactly...

Bloomsbury presents Tell the Ghosts I'm Gone by Kalynn Bayron, read by Jordan Cobb From New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron comes a new horror novel about a group of teens with unique—and potentially deadly—gifts. Moll, Redd, Agnes, and Ossie are powerful—and dangerous. But...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK As the Civil War looms, a young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost in this “poignant story of love, family and friendship [that] celebrates the power of liberation” (People). “An enrapturing tale of survival...

A chilling Lovecraftian horror story from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800 Venice finds the mysterious plague that killed her former master may have followed her to Italy . . . and now stalks the canals. Venice...

One of Oprah Daily's Best Books of Summer 2026 One of NPR's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer One of Esquire's 22 Most Anticipated Books of 2026 A People's Must-Read Book for Summer 2026 One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Most Anticipated Literary Fiction titles for Spring/Summer 2026 One of...

One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of 2024 One of Crime Reads' Best Gothic Novels of 2024 In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse...

Richard English had made a successful career for himself as talking head on conservative talk shows and radio. He only wished he had known that the best way for him to make it as a Black man in America was to talk bad about Black people to a predominantly white audience a lot sooner. If only he knew the ghastly price he would pay for being a sellout...

A standalone folk-horror romance about grief, anger, and a love so monstrous it bleeds into the world. Perfect for fans of Deathless, Bones and All, and The Bear and the Nightingale. Rayne Dorne has always known she was different. She was never given the chance to consider herself anything else...

Pain is a survival mechanism of fundamental importance. It plays a crucial role in our lives, and eventually molds us into whoever it is that we become. At least it did for Zuri. After her world is brutally destroyed, she feels she has nothing left to hold on to but the fading dream of escaping the ghetto. Young, beautiful, and naïve, she is drawn into the world of sex and money, working at a hole in the wall strip club in South Philly.

Three starred reviews! In this “beautifully executed victory lap” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) to Jason Reynolds’s award-winning and New York Times bestselling Track series, meet Coach as a boy striving to come into his own as a track star while facing upheaval at home. Before Coach...

He was murdered on the Boulevard. His story was buried with him. Darius Calloway was doing what he had always done, trying to make his neighborhood better, when a shootout outside a gas station left him dead. The police closed the case almost immediately. His name was dragged through the neighborhood. His family was left to grieve. But Darius did not disappear. Something kept him on the Boulevard. Soon, men who thought they had nothing to fear begin running from things no one else can see. Soon, the living and the dead are fighting the same battle. The Boulevard has a long memory. MLK ...

Hallow never believed in ghosts until she whispered the wrong name at a Halloween party. What started as a drunk game turned into a haunting connection when Doom, a dead street king with unfinished business, appeared in her life. He’s smooth, protective, and everything her living ex could never be. But Doom isn’t just back for love he’s back for closure. As their worlds collide, Hallow learns that sometimes the scariest things aren’t the dead, but the memories and men that refuse to let go. When Doom finally faces the cousin who betrayed him, his time in Hallow's world starts to ...

If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened—could they happen again—on a global scale? Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, Professor Harold McCabe comes stumbling out of the sands, but he dies before he can tell his story. Then an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption...