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Hey everyone, you're listening to it's been a minute from NPR. I'm Brittany Loose.

And it is officially my favorite time of the year.

Fall, which means spooky season. Scary movies, books, shows, you name it, I want it.

And it's more than ghosts and gore. Horror holds up a fun house mirror for our darkest fears and desires.

We do have a human urge to shoot a zombie, not a person,

but somebody who is a threat, who might be wearing clothes like somebody I'm annoyed with.

Recognize that, boys? It's the Jordan Peele.

There's a real human release that comes with zombie movies in the fact that we get to hide out, we get to have our weapons and guns, and they're not as smart as us.

Meal is the director behind Get Out, Nope, and Us.

I'd argue he revitalized the booming market for Black Horror in film.

And now he's turning his expertise to the written word, and has edited a series of short scary stories called Out There Screaming, an anthology of New Black Horror.

Today on the show, we're looking at the tenets of Black Horror, reckoning with its past, and looking toward its future for new possibilities.

Jordan Peele, welcome to it's been a minute.

Thank you. It's good to be here.

It's good to have you. It's good to have you.

Just you saying that it feels like I've been here before.

It's been a minute since we've chatted. Yeah.

Yeah. I like to hear that.

I mean, also too. I mean, just with the theme of this book that you edited that we're going to discuss today, I don't know.

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