Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

by Jordan Peele

view horror as catharsis through entertainment. It’s a way to work through your deepest pain and fear—but for Black people that isn’t possible, and for many decades wasn’t possible, without the stories being told in the first place.

Justice is blind and Jesus Is Watching and Carl is meant to be a soldier of righteousness, meant to make the world a better place, even if he has to break its teeth to get it there.

“This is why they fear us. They live with their secret shame, their secret terror that we might do to them what they’ve done to us. We don’t depend on them, don’t need them. We