Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

by Jordan Peele

I view horror as catharsis through entertainment.

Only the truly evil would build a life they knew they would abandon.

She talked about it at the corners.

She wanted to be the sort of person that could trust a man like him.

Give us a glimpse of a more powerful, sentient entity and some of us will offer up our wombs as incubators.

Grad school is bad for the brain.

But once you crack the seal on being a crazy person, people don’t really make a distinction.

Andrew never had any ambition other than to have everything he wanted, despite never really excelling at, or working hard for, anything. Luckily for men like him, the world has been configured to accommodate that ambition.

I sighed at the realization that the mosquitoes would leave him alone.

There’s something that traveling across giant swaths of the Earth in a short period of time does to you.

No, we have a right to…be.”

“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.

Who told him the road was his?

We’re only real people depending on who lifts up the box and sees us.