Jordan Peele’s New Book, ‘Out There Screaming,’ Tops Amazon’s Horror Bestseller Chart

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Just in time for Halloween! Following the success of hit films, like Nope, Us and Get Out, Academy Award winning-writer Jordan Peele is trying his hand at publishing with the book Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, a collection of horror stories from Black authors edited by the writer-director.

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And much like another master of horror Stephen King’s new bestselling novel, Holly, the anthology gained the number-one spot on Amazon’s bestsellers chart in Horror as of press time.

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

Price: $30.00 $25.20

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On sale for $25 (or $5 off at Amazon) Out There Screaming — in which Peele penned the introduction — features the work of nearly 20 beloved and up-and-coming Black authors, including Erin E. Adams, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebecca Roanhorse, Terence Taylor, Cadwell Turnbull and much more.

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


Meanwhile, Out There Screaming is available as an e-book for the Kindle e-readers and Kindle app for $13.99, as well as an unabridged Audible audiobook for $5.95 — for Audible members only.


Not a member? Sign up for a 30-day free trial and get two free audiobooks (including Out There Screaming). Afterward, the service auto-renews for $14.95 per month. However, the audiobook service has a promotion going on for $5.95 per month for the first four months of your subscription when you sign up by Dec. 31.


As for the 400-page book itself, it includes short stories ranging from police brutality and profiling to two freedom riders getting stranded in pre-Civil Rights Alabama, while the book, as a whole, examines the realities of injustice through terror and the supernatural.


Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror is now available on Amazon as a hardcover book, for Kindle as an e-book and for Audible as an audiobook. Read the book here.

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

Price: $30.00 $25.20

Buy On Amazon

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