INDIANAPOLIS — African Americans have sometimes been frightfully underrepresented in the horror community, whether that’s in books, TV shows or film.After the screening, award winning black horror author Tananarive Due sat down for a discussion with the audience.“For a lot of black women, we got our love for horror from our parents and grandparents who showed us stuff way too young,” Due said. “For me, it was my late mother who was a Civil Rights activist. She was very serious but loved horror.
Due says what’s great about black horror is not only that it represents black people, but it can also offer different perspectives or points of view. “It’s coming from a slightly different direction. The characters have slightly different problems and preoccupations, like for example, in “Get Out” racism is the monster, but there are others where it’s not about race and the monster is what’s inside your home,” Due said.
Due won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood. She is also known as a film historian with expertise in black horror.