In 1929, shortly after the word “zombie” was introduced to the English language, Black writer Cora Ball Moten wrote one of the first zombie stories in English—and one of the best. The Creeping Thing, serialized in Black newspapers across the country, is a truly terrifying horror-mystery hybrid about a detective investigating a strange series of disappearances in a bizarre southern mansion. This volume also features Nick Lewis’s The Baron of Harlem, a fast-paced gangland tale of warring beer barons, dazzling divas, and a mad scientist who can turn Black men white and white men Black.
