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I don't believe in ghosts but I am afraid of them.

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reviewed Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele: Out There Screaming (2023, Pan Macmillan) 3 stars

A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that …

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3 stars

Some really strong, original short horror stories that play cleverly with race, identity, displacement, hate and self-hate. But it's mostly a mixed bag.

I did love and would highly recommend the stories by Rebecca Roanhorse, Lesley Nneka Arimah and Chesya Burke – skip straight to these.

reviewed The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1999) 2 stars

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail …

One for the completionists

2 stars

The foreword tells me that Hogg preferred to write only one draft. It shows. Confessions does lots of Gothic stuff well enough, but apart from its Borders setting, it's not treading any ground that Lewis's The Monk hasn't already.

One for the Gothic completionists.