▸RELEASED OUT NOW!
400 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook
▸Editor Jordan Peele
▸Publisher Picador
In the current realm of horror, few things are a higher seal of approval than having Jordan Peele’s name attached. Outside of the modern classics Get Out, Us and Nope, which he wrote and directed, his production company Monkey Paw has collaborated with some of the most exciting names in the business, including Nia DaCosta, Henry Selick and Nikyatu Jusu. Now he adds another string to his bow, presenting this Anthology of New Black Horror which he edited and wrote an introduction for.
Featuring the work of 19 writers, the book has significantly more hits than misses, beginning with arguably the best piece, and the one most crying out for a film adaptation. NK Jemisin spins a spooky yarn about a sadistic black police officer who begins to see eyes in the headlights of those who have committed crimes, enabling him to enact skin-crawling police brutality, including knocking out the teeth of an elderly woman when he suggestively forces his baton into her mouth.
At the other end of the spectrum are some decent but markedly less vivid
