New Book | Out There Screaming

This one took me awhile to read. When I purchased this book it had been released for about a year and when I read that it was a compilation of Black horror stories by Black authors, edited by Jordan Peele, I was sold. When you read the forward, Peele describes what inspired the "Sunken Place" in his movie "Get Out" - a medieval torture practice called "oubliette." I found that interesting.

Overall the stories were creative but quite a few didn't give me "horror", maybe a little suspense. Some of them would've translated very well on screen. Here's a list of the stories that I enjoyed the most.

• The Rider - my favorite! This needs to be turned into a movie/short film.

• The Norwood Trouble - the protection from your community and roots...loved it.

• A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree - i'm curious to know who won at the end of the story. hoping Del eventually made it out of that section of the highway.

• Your Happy Place - this had a nice little twist and towards the end I thought of shutter island. this story touches on prisons profiting off mass incarceration of Black men.