Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele

Out There Screaming

This anthology, like most collections, was a mixed bag. Some stories were compelling while others fell flat. Some authorial voices reeled me in immediately; others lost my attention a page in. Here are the stories, listed in order of my preference:

Hide & Seek

Flicker

Lasiren

Pressure

The Norwood Trouble

A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree

An American Fable

Origin Story

The Aesthete

The Other One

The Rider

Wandering Devil

Dark Home

Eye & Tooth

Invasion of the Baby Snatchers

Reckless Eyeballing

A Grief of the Dead

The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World

Overall, this was a middling anthology, but I would still recommend it to anyone wishing to read more Black fiction or short horror.

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