Maurice Broaddus Books in Order

Model Samson believes he can save his dying brother, a priest struggling with HIV and shaken faith, by obtaining twenty souls. His bloody bargain draws both men into a confrontation with supernatural forces and the price of their devotion.

The cast of an all-Black television variety show faces ghosts from its past as murder and madness spread. Personal grief and the pressures of racial representation turn professional success into a confrontation with histories the performers cannot leave behind.

In an Indianapolis neighborhood divided by gangs, King James White seeks a better future for people living under constant threat. Echoes of Arthurian legend emerge as strange allies and supernatural dangers complicate his struggle to build a united community.

Guided by Merle’s disturbing visions, King tries to unite Indianapolis’s rival factions before violence overwhelms the streets. Betrayal within his own circle makes preaching peace increasingly difficult in a city where Arthurian legend and gang warfare converge.

Betrayal leaves King wounded but with little time to recover. As an ultimate enemy threatens his Indianapolis community, he must gather his people for a confrontation that will determine the fate of his hard-won alliance.

In a world reshaped by corporate rule and immense alien towers, former security officer Mac Peterson investigates his ex-wife’s death. Working with a cyborg officer, he follows a murder disguised as suicide toward plans that could transform the planet again.

This collection ranges across African history, contemporary life, and speculative futures, blending horror, folklore, fantasy, and science fiction. Warriors, ghosts, vampires, and space travelers inhabit stories that explore darkness while looking toward resilience and the possibility of renewal.

Former Jamaican agent Desmond Coke flees with Lij, a boy whose secrets have made him a prize for rival political and religious powers. Pursued across an alternate North America, they search for safety amid assassins, mechanical soldiers and competing visions of freedom.

Fourteen stories trace Black experience across centuries through folklore, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Warriors, grieving families, time travelers, and spacefarers confront oppression and inheritance in a collection concerned with memory, survival, transformation, and the futures communities imagine.

Poet Sleepy and activist Knowledge Allah find themselves pursued by Indianapolis authorities, while heiress Sophine Jefferson investigates her father’s murder. Their separate struggles converge in a fight over political power, freedom and the future of their community.

Thelonius Mitchell is tired of the suspicion directed at his special-education classmates. When a gun is found near their school, he and his friends become immediate suspects, pushing him to challenge the assumptions that have defined them.

Harlem slacker Malik learns from his dying grandfather that he has inherited an ancient tradition of African sorcery. Strange visions and dangerous pursuers force him to accept responsibilities that reach beyond his troubled family to the neighborhood and world around him.

The Muungano coalition has built an interplanetary society beyond the oppression of old Earth, but established powers threaten its survival. Leaders, scientists, and warriors must navigate political rivalries and mounting dangers to defend the future their people created.

Graffiti artist Bella Fades keeps a low profile to hide that she lives alone. Discovering plans to strip resources from her Indianapolis neighborhood forces her to trust unlikely allies and organize the community she cannot afford to lose.

Stranded beyond a destroyed gateway, Epyc Ro’s soldiers seize an alien vessel and seek a way home. Across the solar system, other Muungano citizens confront imprisonment, divided loyalties, and emerging threats that could unravel their interplanetary society.

The arrival of the Interstellar Alliance creates a new crisis for the already embattled Muungano Empire. Across Earth, Mars, Titan, and distant space, soldiers, scientists, diplomats, and leaders must respond to an approaching power that could determine their survival.

Edited by Maurice Broaddus and Chesya Burke, this anthology brings together Black American horror across generations. Established writers and newer voices explore cultural memory, folklore, injustice, and fear, connecting the genre’s history with possibilities for its future.