Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Short story anthologies can sometimes be

kind of a mixed bag? I mean, you're taking pieces from different writers, so you've got

different voices, different perspectives, different styles, and it can get messy and unwieldy.

Arguably, the most important authorial voice in an anthology is the editor,

the person curating the book to give it some structure. This is all a wind-up to say,

Jordan Peel is on the pot today. The horror director known for Get Out and Us and Nope came out

with a short story anthology recently. Unsurprisingly, it's of horror stories titled Out There Screaming.

And he talked to Brittany Luce, host of NPRS. It's been a minute about collecting other people's

unique expressions of fear. That's after the break.

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The subtitle for this book is an anthology of New Black Horror. What makes this new?

This sort of landscape we live in of black America and what is becoming less and less white America, but we still recognize a strong

hold of white supremacy. The dynamic is shifting every day. There are books that are being

challenged, that weren't challenged a little while ago. What makes it new is that we're living in a

new world every day. Upon reading these, you do find that there is the newness of them. These are,

for the most part, I feel like stories that couldn't be told a couple of years ago because of even

the context of the world they're in.

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