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
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.
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
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