Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin is back with Black Flame, a historical horror about one woman's deadly obsession with a haunted film, perfect for fans of Midsommar and Night Film. Ellen, a deeply closeted lesbian spends all her time in solitude, restoring films at a failing archive in New York City. When a group of German academics present her with a print of an infamous exploitation film believed to have been destroyed during the Holocaust, Ellen finds herself forced to confront her own repressed sexuality. And the more she works on the restoration, the more obsessed she becomes over its depictions of occult practices and queer debauchery. She’s soon convinced that the acts portrayed in the film are not fiction, but reality. And they’re happening to her…