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Book SynopsisJordan Peele
is an Oscar and Emmy Awardwinning writer, producer, and director. His debut feature,
Get Out, was released in 2017 to widespread acclaim, earning four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Original Screenplay for Peele. In 2019, Peele wrote, produced, and directed his second feature,
Us, which instantly became a smash hit with audiences and critics alike, posting the largest box-office opening for an original horror movie ever. In the summer of 2022, Peele released his third feature, the sci-fi horror epic
Nope, which also opened to number one at the box office. Also in 2022, Peele and Monkeypaw released the Henry Selick directed stop-motion film
Wendell & Wild for Netflix, which Peele co-wrote, produced, and provided a voice. Prior to
Get Out, Peele was the co-creator of Comedy Central's
Key & Peele. Across five seasons, the show's unique take on sketch comedy became a viral sensation online. In 2012, Peele formed his fil
Trade ReviewNot only likely to be the best anthology of the year, but
one for the ages. * The Guardian *
These tales are all both gruesomely imaginative and firmly rooted in the realities of anti-Black racism and brutality—and there isn’t a weak one in the bunch. This is
essential reading for any horror fan. --
Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
Something special in time for Halloween. * Evening Standard *
What could be more cathartic than this
thoroughly chilling collection of tales featuring spirits, monsters, sinister technology, foreboding hallucinations and more? Running the gamut from grounded-in-reality shocks to fully supernatural thrills
there's something for horror fans of all varieties. * Sight & Sound *
Real life (traffic stops) and real history (Freedom Riders, lynch mobs) meet speculative fiction and the supernatural in this bone-chilling collection. * Time *
An important work in the history of black horror fiction. * Far Out Magazine *
In
Out There Screaming, [Peele] curates a roster of
established names and
breakthrough talent to showcase the abundant variety of macabre Black storytelling. It’s clearly conceived as a
landmark collection * Esquire, The Best Horror Books of 2023 Will Scare You Sh*tless *
