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Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele

2 reviews

rnbhargava's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I’m giving this a 4.75 because it’s overall a fantastic collection of short stories with horror and other genre sensibilities done mostly incredibly well. I’m not going to ding the ones that didn’t hit for me too harshly because frankly those might work really well. Overall, I loved my time with this book. Reading it off and on for a year never felt like wasted time. I now have a whole plethora of black authors to check out longer novels and other works from.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

If I missed any triggers, there’s plenty that is spread throughout this book that is an anthology of short stories mostly in horror by Black Authors. Please be aware.

vixenreader's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A smorgasbord of the best voices in Black Horror, there is a variety of stories that focus on a diverse set of fears. Even the stories that I was not entirely enthralled with were still  impressive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexism, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Slavery, Dementia, Kidnapping, War, Deportation

The trigger warnings are numerous and featured in specific stories.