From films like Jordan Peele’s Get Out and this year’s highly anticipated Us, TV shows like Fox’s The Passage and Peele’s The Twilight Zone, and Shudder’s documentary Horror Noire,one thing is certain: horror narratives that center Black protagonists aren’t just vital, they’re revolutionary. As Robin R. Means Coleman suggests in the preface to her groundbreaking book on Black horror, “the horror genre has great revelatory promise” and the potential to expand the greater conversation of what it means to be a part of the African diaspora. Each of these stories reveals the power of Black literature and a potential horizon for Black cinema. Whether on screen or on the written page, it’s clear that Black stories matter.
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