Horror Films & Books for Black History Month

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, an impoverished young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare.

Follows a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter as they fight a supernatural Ku Klux Klan in Macon, Georgia in the early 20th century.

A young African-American man meets his white girlfriend’s parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.

A brutal medical research history lesson exploring the lives impacted by an exploitative and violent experiment.

Eve witnesses one of her father’s infidelities. In anger, she decides to take matters into her own hands and becomes tormented by the family secrets that come out.

A snowstorm traps town residents together inside the local inn, where newly arrived forest ranger Finn and postal worker Cecily must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.

On his first night in a mental institution in Queens, New York, Pepper is visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. After, Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back.

Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above while the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.

When Lilith wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali, a seemingly benevolent alien race who saved humanity hundreds of years ago. And now they want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth–but salvation comes at a price.

Troubled teen Milo hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo’s dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality.

After escaping enslavement Gilda finds chosen family with “those who share the blood.” We see her grow and mature into her new life over the course of several centuries.

A search for dissertation material leads a graduate student to an old tale about a slave spirit said to haunt a notorious housing project.

A young orphaned Black girl moves in with her grandmother who summons a spirit to protect the girl but the spirit soon becomes an uncontrollable monster.

A small group of people fight to survive in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse that is under siege by zombies.

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: The uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.