Never Whistle at Night

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology collects dark stories by Indigenous writers from across North America, edited by Shane Hawk (Cheyenne-Arapaho, Hidatsa and Potawatomi) and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Vintage published it in September 2023, with a foreword by Stephen Graham Jones.

The stories take their cue from the old warning not to whistle at night, and range from supernatural horror, with vengeful spirits, curses and monsters, to realist tales of racism, abuse and revenge. Family and the ties between generations recur throughout.

Contributors include Rebecca Roanhorse, Cherie Dimaline, Brandon Hobson, Mona Susan Power, Kelli Jo Ford, Morgan Talty, David Heska Wanbli Weiden and Richard Van Camp, among others. Sources disagree on whether the book holds 25 or 26 stories.