Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is someone tortured?
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In “Reckless Eyeballing”
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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 there genital trauma/mutilation?
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In “The Aesthete”
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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 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 there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Discussed in “Reckless Eyeballing,” but not dwelled upon
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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 any teeth damaged?
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In “Reckless Eyeballing”
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Are there abusive parents?
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In “Hide & Seek”
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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 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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Is there amputation?
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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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Is there gun violence?
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Passing mention in “Eye & Teeth.” Part of the narrative in “Flicker”
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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In several stories
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there childbirth?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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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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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is someone choked?
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in “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree”
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Opening of “Hide & Seek”
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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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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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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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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 someone possessed?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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In Lasirén and Hide & Seek
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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 religion discussed?
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In several stories
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Is existentialism debated?
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In several stories
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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 underwater scenes?
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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 obscene language/gestures?
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Swearing in most if not all stories
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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 homeless?
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Spoiler for the end of “Your Happy Place”: the protagonist and his partner become homeless
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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 a hospital scene?
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Much of “Invasion of the Baby Snatchers”
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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 decapitation?
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In multiple car accidents 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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Does someone asphyxiate?
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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 excessive gore?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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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 kidnapped?
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At the end of “The Aesthete”
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In the story “Eye & Tooth” and “Hide & Seek”
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Are there bugs?
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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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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 someone eaten?
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Many people in “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”
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Does a cat die?
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Passing mention in the story “Eye & Tooth”
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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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