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Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror
Shane Hawk, author
Welcome to Anoka, Minnesota, a small city just outside of the Twin Cities dubbed "The Halloween Capital of the World" since 1937. Here before you lie several tales involving bone collectors, pagan witches, werewolves, skeletal bison, and cloned children. It is up to you to decipher between fact and fiction as the author has woven historical facts into his narratives. With his debut horror collection, Cheyenne & Arapaho author Shane Hawk explores themes of family, grief, loneliness, and identity through the lens of indigenous life.
Reviews
The Millions
Finally, I stumbled across an emerging Native writer’s work after reading a tweet from my friend, Stephen Graham Jones. Anoka, by Cheyenne & Arapaho writer Shane Hawk, is a short collection of indigenous horror stories, self-published and available online. While I don’t read much horror, the vibrancy of these stories immediately impressed me. The voice in these six stories is urgent, insistent, and unrelenting, and I couldn’t put the book down until I’d finished each one.
