A review by books_nooks_spooks
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams

4.0

You best believe I was out there screaming when I heard that Jordan Peele was editing a horror anthology! I really enjoy his work as a director (Nope is my favourite of his) and I was really keen to see what he would present to the literary world!! There were also some names attached that caused me to wiggle in glee. The book itself is actually really beautiful and when I was kindly gifted a copy from @igot everything else was immediately dropped as I cooried in and started reading. This is a real mixed bag of stories. It’s a big book and not because of the volume of tales it tells but because some of these ‘shorts’ are not actually that. And I found it was those ones that didn’t work for me, not because they were poorly written it was simply the format. However, I know a lot of people prefer a longer length yarn in anthologies. The shorter, snapper stories were the ones I really enjoyed and these one’s definitely gripped my attention better. Overall the great stories were REALLY great and the meh stories were exactly that. There was no middle ground with this book. I think at some point I’ll definitely re-read and see if my attention span is any better second time around