Nine terrifying Native American & Indigenous horror books

Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. are the editors of Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II, an Indigenous horror anthology featuring stories by acclaimed Native American and Indigenous authors.

The collection features stories by: Jessica Doe • P.C. Verrone • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Jim Terry • Jessica Johns • A.J. Eversole • Sonia Marie Barry • Shane Hawk • Stephen Graham Jones • Alicia Elliott • Mat RudeWalker • Shaawan Francis Keahna • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Jake Arrowtop • Alina Pete • Debra Magpie Earling • Joshua Whitehead • Tommy Orange • Ramona Emerson • Erica Tremblay • Kimberly Blaeser

At People magazine the editors tagged "some of their favorite horror novels written by Indigenous authors," including:

Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson

[Wilson] serves up one of the best novels I’ve read in a long time — horror, sci-fi, thriller or otherwise. Things come from a hole in the sky. Hold onto your head and your heart.
— T.V.A.

Learn about another title on the list.

Hole in the Sky is among Megan Mabee's five sci-fi titles like Project Hail Mary and CrimeReads's fifteen best speculative mysteries and thrillers of 2025.

The Page 69 Test: Hole in the Sky.

--Marshal Zeringue