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The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

Terry J. Benton-Walker (Editor),

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Start date: October 1, 2024

Finish date: October 31, 2024

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Sep 24, 2024 Trisha rated it really liked it

"Are you ready to enter Hell?"

This was such a fun anthology of stories! I loved the beginning and the lore. It starts with a blog post and some interested information about these stories. It does wrap up at the end and I loved the added twist to the stories.

And this set of stories are really good. I did this as an audio book and each story had such a good narrator that really brought the story alive. I walked at night during these stories and it added perfectly to the dark, gory feel of the stor ...more

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Feb 02, 2025 Kami rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2025-rrrc-reading-challenge, young-adult, horror, short-story-novella, anthology, person-of-color-author

It used to be a long-standing trope in horror movies that the token black guy always died first. This doesn't happen as much anymore especially since nowadays, the black guy can be the hero like in Get Out or the final girl can be a black girl like in Barbarian. Anyway, in this anthology there are 13 stories written by authors of color and the white guy dies first.

I'm a horror fan and I thought these were some fun horror short stories. My favorite was Docile Girls by Chloe Gong, author of the S ...more

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