L. Marie Wood is one of 29 authors with a horror short story in Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire, coming October 13th. We were honored to have her on our show to discuss the psychological horrors she writes, her writing influences and inspirations, what her writing space looks like during this pandemic, and black authors writing in alternative genres. We ended with a deeeep discussion about Lovecraft Country and black women shrinking themselves. Turned out to be a powerful episode like L. Marie Wood's short story, "The Dance". Check out her work at lmariewood.com and follow her Twitter @lmariewood1 , FB @lmariewood, and IG @lmwoodie . Look out for her new book "The Realm", coming October 29th.