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Hi friends! If you are a regular listener to All the Books! then you probably know I am a giant chicken and typically steer clear of reading any horror. I am trying to change this because I used to love horror films but I can no longer handle them and I miss it. I figured maybe I’d do better with reading horror instead and I’ve been saying I would try for years. I have finally dove in this week because I got a copy of a book that I simply could not leave unread: Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams (Bookshop | Amazon | Libro). I’m making my way through it by only reading in the morning while I am drinking my coffee and it is light out and bedtime is multiple hours away.