Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
Book • 2023 • Horror
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Does a cat die?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Dead pig in “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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In “The Aesthete”
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Is an animal sad?
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Very old cat in “Pressure,” doesn’t seem too happy
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Does a head get squashed?
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In “An American Fable,” the protagonist stomps a man’s head in self defense
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Is there blood/gore?
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In “Reckless Eyeballing,” the protagonist accidentally cuts his arm badly
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Are there abusive parents?
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In “Hide & Seek”
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Does a kid die?
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Mention of a baby dying in “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”
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Is there body horror?
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Appearance of eyeballs in places where there shouldn’t be in the story “Reckless Eyeballing.” Alien pregnancies in humans is the topic of “Invasion of the Baby Snatchers.” People with no faces in “Flicker”
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there a hanging?
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Mention of lynching in “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”
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Is someone burned alive?
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Multiple instances in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree.” Lynching by burning in “An American Fable”
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Is there hate speech?
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The protagonist’s internal monologue in “Reckless Eyeballing” is very hateful, specifically sexist, full of misogynist in general
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Is someone eaten?
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Many people in “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”
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Is there decapitation?
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In multiple car accidents in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree”
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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In “Flicker”
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Are there bugs?
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In “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”
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Does someone break a bone?
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in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree”
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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In “Flicker”
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Is there amputation?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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In Hide & Seek
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Is someone choked?
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in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree”
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Is there gun violence?
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Passing mention in “Eye & Teeth.” Part of the narrative in “Flicker”
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Does a car crash?
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Big event in the story “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree”
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Is there addiction?
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Spoiler for the end of “Your Happy Place”: a character and his partner get addicted to drugs. In “Hide & Seek” the protagonist’s mother struggles with addiction
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Does someone overdose?
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Spoiler for the end of “Your Happy Place”: the protagonist and his partner get addicted to drugs. The protagonist attempts suicide by overdose and survives
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Does someone fall to their death?
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In “Flicker” a person falls from a window and is impaled on a lamppost
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Is someone possessed?
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In “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Drinking and driving in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree”
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Is someone stabbed?
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In “Flicker” a person falls from a window and is impaled on a lamppost
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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In Lasirén and Hide & Seek
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Driving while stoned in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree.” Spoiler for the end of “Your Happy Place”: a character and his partner get addicted to drugs
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Are there bedbugs?
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Passing mention that a hotel has bedbugs in “Eye & Tooth”
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Does a plane crash?
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An unspecified number of planes fall in “Flicker”
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Opening of “Hide & Seek”
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there ghosts?
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In “Eye & Tooth” and in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree”
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Are there mannequins?
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Creepy dolls in “Eye & Tooth”
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Is someone kidnapped?
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At the end of “The Aesthete”
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Spoiler for the end of “Your Happy Place”: the protagonist and his partner get addicted to drugs. The protagonist attempts suicide by overdose and survives
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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In several stories
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there excessive gore?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there cannibalism?
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In “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World” there’s a creature called the devil fish that eats its own kind to gain knowledge, until there’s just one left
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In the story “Eye & Tooth” and “Hide & Seek”
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Swearing in most if not all stories
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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It’s a horror anthology. That kind of thing happens a lot throughout
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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The story “Pressure” uses the second person for the most part (i.e. saying you, your, etc)
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Is there childbirth?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Discussion of cops engaged in domestic abuse in “Reckless Eyeballing.” A character attempts to murder his ex-wife in “Eye & Tooth.” A mother abuses children in “Hide & Seek”
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Is religion discussed?
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In several stories
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Is there sexual content?
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Discussed in “Reckless Eyeballing,” but not dwelled upon
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler for the end of “Your Happy Place”: the protagonist and his partner become homeless
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Is existentialism debated?
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In several stories
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Much of “Invasion of the Baby Snatchers”
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Does someone vomit?
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In “Flicker.” Possibly in some other stories, but I don’t remember
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