This was really interesting and entertaining!

I liked that the authors covered traditional horror movies as well as sci-fi, comedy horror and other horror-adjacent genres. And woven throughout the book was also the theme that while many people dismiss horror as a silly or unserious genre, it's usually full of political and social commentary. This is especially true of horror films where Black creators have been able to control the narratives of their stories--Jordan Peele is mentioned several times throughout the book as a writer/director who has done a lot to bring Black horror to the mainstream.

Overall it was a really good history of Black people in horror and how things have changed since Duane Jones's noteworthy role in Night of the Living Dead in 1968. It also blatantly lays out all the different tropes that Black actors have been limited to in horror films since that role, which is something that they have only recently been able to break out of.

The audiobook narrator, Jaime Lincoln Smith, was really good and definitely added personality to the text. The only downside to the audio format for this book is that the listing of movie titles, release years and movie grosses ($$) got a little repetitive. This is something I would normally skim over when reading a physical/ebook copy but that's much harder to do with audio.

I definitely recommend this to anyone who is a fan (even a casual one!) of horror movies. It's entertaining and educational and will definitely make you want to watch some horror movies