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Black Horror
A wing of its own, four episodes, one continuing thing. Sundown towns, contract buying, a county health study, thirty-five blocks in Tulsa: the history is real and it is cited, and what walks through it is not. The machinery ran on paper, and something learned to feed through the signatures. It cannot take. It can only be given. Every episode is a different hand being asked to sign.
Sundown
EPISODE 1 · ILLINOIS, 1957 · ~25 MIN
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Ninety miles short of Chicago, a radiator hose splits outside a town that is not in the Green Book. Ruth Mayfield has an eleven-year-old asleep in the back seat, a gallon jug, and until 7:52. Play as Ruth. Five endings, and the clock is the monster.
⚠ Historical racial violence, depicted without slurs.
SUNDOWN
▶ PLAY EP 1
Contract
EP 2 · CHICAGO, 1962 · 5 ENDINGS
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Twenty-three thousand five hundred for a house worth nine, no deed for twenty years, and one missed payment takes all of it. Six families have signed this paper. All six are still inside.
⚠ Housing discrimination. Body horror, entrapment.
CONTRACT_BUY
▶ SIGN IT
Ward Six
EP 3 · ALABAMA, 1949 · 5 ENDINGS
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Four hundred and twelve men, observed for eleven years and treated for none of them. There is penicillin in a cabinet forty feet from the ward. And the second column of the ledger is not a prediction, it is a schedule.
⚠ Medical racism, withheld treatment. Body horror.
WARD_SIX
▶ OPEN THE LEDGER
Greenwood
EP 4 · TULSA, 1921 · 5 ENDINGS
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Thirty-five blocks, eighteen hours, a machine gun on Standpipe Hill. Men did the burning. The thing that walked in behind them does not eat people, it eats proof, and it very nearly finished the job.
⚠ Depicts the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
GREENWOOD
▶ GET THE BOX
The Unsigned
EP 8 · CHICAGO, 2026 · 50 SCENES · 7 ENDINGS · ~35 MIN
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Bronzeville was bought back. Ninety-four percent of its own ground, the Regal open again, the Defender printing on 43rd. Then the excavator hit a wall at thirty-one feet and behind it is every document this country ever destroyed, in perfect condition, and every one of them is a door to the moment it was signed. Only the unsigned can pass, which means the children. And the better they fix the past, the fewer reasons there are for this town to exist. Ninety minutes southwest, a second door opens in a town that lost its plant, and a man in a good coat is already setting out folding chairs.
⚠ The longest story on the site. Historical racial violence, revision horror.
THE_UNSIGNED
▶ GO THROUGH
The Perc Test
EP 5 · LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA · 5 ENDINGS
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Most of the county has no working sewage, the Black Belt clay will not take it, and the federal agreement was terminated in April. The low place comes up shining in a drought, because a full thing does not drink.
⚠ The documented Alabama Black Belt sanitation crisis.
PERC_TEST
▶ DIG
Fence Line
EP 6 · ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, LA · 5 ENDINGS
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The school is a few hundred feet from the plant, the air carries the highest measured cancer risk in America, and the case was dropped in March. The tract the plant stands on was a sugar plantation, and the quarters are exactly where the fence runs.
⚠ The documented Louisiana industrial corridor.
TRACT_14
▶ PUT IT IN THE WINDOW
General Horror
Supernatural and folk. Both of these have rules, both sets of rules can be worked out in time, and in both cases working them out is not the same as surviving them.
The Long Static
TEXAS, 1979 · NIGHT SHIFT · 5 ENDINGS
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Two hundred fifty watts over eleven hundred sleeping people. Between three and four in the morning the carrier drifts and a flat voice reads names, in the order the town buried them, and then it goes past the dead and keeps reading.
DEAD_AIR
▶ TAKE THE SHIFT
Harrow House
NORFOLK, 1974 · FOLK · 4 ENDINGS
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A folklorist, a reel-to-reel, and eleven days to midsummer. They are lovely to her. They have been waiting forty years for somebody to write it all down, and the recorder is not equipment, it is the altar.
OLD_WAYS
▶ START RECORDING
The Exception Clause
EP 9 · ALABAMA, 1908 · 5 ENDINGS
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Arrested walking home from a job he has. Fined twelve dollars he does not have. A mine pays it, and now he is free, employed and owned, and the paper says all three at once. The Thirteenth Amendment makes an exception for punishment of a crime. They read that as an instruction.
⚠ Convict leasing and debt peonage, documented.
EXCEPTION
▶ MAKE YOUR MARK
Man in the House
EP 10 · LOUISIANA, 1960 · 5 ENDINGS
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Louisiana cut roughly twenty-three thousand children off the rolls in a matter of weeks, and the test was not income. It was whether a caseworker with a flashlight found evidence of a man. Dovie Ancelet has three children, a night shift, and her brother's work boots drying by the back door.
⚠ Welfare surveillance and family separation, documented.
SUITABILITY
▶ OPEN THE DOOR
Coal Run
EP 11 · OHIO, 1956 TO 2008 · 4 ENDINGS
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The water main runs down the road, past the Black houses, to the white houses at the top of the hill. For roughly fifty years the families on Coal Run haul water in barrels while the pipe is forty feet from the step. Nobody ever refuses them in writing, and that is the entire machine.
⚠ Kennedy v. City of Zanesville. A federal jury awarded ~$10.8M in 2008.
UNDERBOUND
▶ APPLY AGAIN
The Deposit
EP 7 · LOUISIANA, 1873 · 5 ENDINGS
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Congress chartered it. Lincoln signed the act. It had an eagle on the passbook and thirty-seven branches and it was the safest place in America for a Black family's money. Ophelia Cheatham carries three hundred and twelve dollars up a marble step and hands it over with her own two hands, because that is the only way it has ever been able to work.
⚠ Colfax aftermath and financial ruin, documented.
SIGNATURE
▶ MAKE YOUR MARK
The Daily Record
EP 12 · WILMINGTON, 1898 · 5 ENDINGS
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Ransome Pettiford sets type one letter at a time, backwards, out of a wooden case, for the only Black daily newspaper in the state. In two days a mob will burn the press, force an elected government to resign at gunpoint, and drive two thousand people out of the largest city in North Carolina. They burned the press first. Ask why that was the order.
⚠ Armed coup and massacre, documented. Arson.
TYPE
▶ SET THE LINE
The Immortal Line
EP 13 · BALTIMORE, 1951 · 5 ENDINGS
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Two beds down in the colored ward, a woman named Henrietta has tissue taken during a procedure nobody explains to her. Ozella Rhem is sampled the same week. One of those two cultures dies in a dish in eleven days. The other one is alive right now, on every inhabited continent, and it has not stopped dividing once in seventy-five years.
⚠ Medical experimentation without consent, documented.
HeLa
▶ TWO BEDS DOWN
Floor Plan
EP 14 · CHICAGO, 1969 · 5 ENDINGS
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Three hundred children a morning, eggs and grits at half three, out of a church basement on the West Side. A friendly man starts asking Delphine Ainsworth very small questions. None of them are about anything. On the fourth of December, at a quarter to five, police fire up to ninety shots into an apartment using a diagram drawn by a friend.
⚠ COINTELPRO and state assassination, documented.
DIAGRAM
▶ ANSWER HIM
Boxtown
EP 15 · MEMPHIS, 2025 · 5 ENDINGS
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Boxtown was built by freedpeople out of boxcar lumber and it has been where Memphis puts things ever since. Now something enormous has gone up beside it that runs all night and breathes, and Toby Ollie has been offered the best money anybody in his family has ever seen to go inside and keep it running. The permit says fifteen. Reuters counted fifty-nine.
⚠ Environmental racism, documented and ongoing.
COLOSSUS
▶ COUNT THEM
The Card
EP 16 · REQUESTED BY Q. SELAH · 6 ENDINGS
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A reader asked for this one. Dorsey Pratt has made eleven years and a lot of money saying the things a certain audience pays a Black man to say about Black people. Then one Tuesday he says the biggest one yet, and on Wednesday the barber he has used for nineteen years asks whether he wants a haircut, sir. On Friday a trooper puts him on a highway shoulder at eleven at night and four cars stop and not one phone comes out. He never knew any of it was switched on.
⚠ Requested story. Satire with teeth. Racist violence and medical neglect.
REVOKED
▶ SAY IT ON AIR
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SIGNAL NOT DECRYPTED
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Another story is coming to this wing.
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