The Black Girl Survives In This One is a love letter to horror

I will admit that despite being a romance reader, I’m a huge horror movie fan so picking up The Black Girl Survives in This One was an easy choice.

In addition, the book is edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell who was a writer at Culturess at one time. It’s amazing to see things come full circle that way so I was frankly more than honored to be able to review this one.

As with most anthologies, this one does have an overall theme which is evidenced in the title and that’s that in each story, the Black girl survives what’s going on but the plot for each story is different depending on the author.

Whether you’re a YA reader, like horror, and just need something to give you that early Halloween fix, then The Black Girl Survives in This One is an excellent pick.

The Black Girl Survives in This One is a love letter to the horror genre.

Let me start by saying that going into an anthology, there are some stories you’ll enjoy and some you won’t. With that being said, this collection featured such a mixed bag of different types of horrors and stories everyone will find something to enjoy. The Black Girl Survives in This One ensnared me almost immediately so I wanted to give love to some of my favorites.

I’d be remiss to not give a shoutout to both Desiree and Saraciea’s stories as they were so much fun. Desiree’s was focused on breaking a family curse while Saraceia’s was a unique and fun take on the classic graveyard zombie trope. Both catered to different audiences but showed just how vastly different yet fun the collection is.

Another I really enjoyed was "Harvesters" by L.L. McKinney which focused on two friends at a house party that are just trying to make it home. This one doesn’t know how you might expect and it ended up being incredibly spooky. Then there was "Ghost Light" by Erin E. Adams which follows a young theater production manager as she’s dealing with some unexpected ghostly happenings.

Some more unique ones I couldn’t stop reading were "Queeniums for Greeniums" by Brittney Morris which felt like the MLM horror story I’ve been dying for. Then there was "The Black Strings" by Vincent Tirado which was a unique type of horror that had an interesting ending, to say the least. Of the entire collection, I’m most intrigued to read more from Monica Brashears.

If you’re interested in this one at all, I think you should give it a try. You might end up finding a new author to try. Plus all of these stories play into different types of horror but in the end, we all know the Black girl survives.

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