Jordan Peele’s New Book, ‘Out There Screaming,’ Tops Amazon’s Horror Bestseller Chart
The 400-page anthology features nearly 20 beloved and new Black writers who examine the realities of injustice through terror and the supernatural.
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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.
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.
Buy ‘Out There Screaming’ On Amazon $26.14
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.
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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.
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