Jordan Peele

FYI Review - This anthology of horror stories contains the following:
-Foreword by Jordan Peele
-Reckless Eyeballing by N.K. Jemisin
-Eye & Tooth by Rebecca Roanhorse
-Wandering Evil by Caldwell Turnbull
-Invasion of the Baby Snatchers by Lesley Nneka Arimah
-The Other One by Violet Allen
-Lasiren by Erin E. Adams
-The Rider by Tananarive Due
-The Aesthete by Justin C. Key
-Pressure by Ezra Claytan Daniels
-Dark Home by Nnedi Okorafor
-Flicker by L.D. Lewis
-The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World by Nalo Hopkinson
-The Norwood Trouble by Maurice Broaddus
-A Grief of the Dead by Rion Amilcar Scott
-A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree by Nicole D. Sconiers
-An American Fable by Chesya Burke
-Your Happy Place by Terence Taylor
-Hide & Seek by P. Njeli Clark
-Origin Story by Tochi Onyebuchi… (more)

Out There Screaming (2023) edited by Jordan Peele. This collection or horror stories is amazing in its scope. Almost twenty tales of suspense and mystery fill the pages and I can’t remember when I’ve read such a varied collection of different views into the realm of what lies beyond. Be it a warning to not mess with the old gods of Africa no matter how brilliant or feminized you might fancy yourself, or the example of your elders protecting you and your town from the far greater threat put forth by others who don’t like the color of your skin, Out There Screaming will leave you amazed.
Jordan Peele, late of Boom Chicago and his startling great movies, provides an introduction to this great collection of the macabre. Mr. Peele has shown his credentials several times over, letting him act as appropriate spokesman for these tales of Terror, and letting his audience know there will not be a false step in whatever lies within the covers.
I found the most amazing thing kept happening as I read this collection. I kept forgetting that the authors were Black writers. I don’t openly recall ever being concerned by a writer’s race or the color of their skin, merely that what I was reading was good or not.
This anthology is great. I’ve mentioned only two of the tales presented but there are others concerning racism, the end of the world, and the terror that hides in all of us. The work, the stories, are universal, but the creepy feeling you get reading this is real and it is personal.
Almost too real.
Don’t miss this book. But keep a nightlight on when you’re in bed later.… (more)