
Dark Dreams
A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers
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This should be a movie!
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L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due, and Brandon Massey are three of the hottest names in suspense fiction. In this collection of flesh-crawling tales, each author contributes one deliciously twisted selection. A writer unearths dangerous truths in backwoods Mississippi and a man's sanity - and life - are threatened by disturbing visions. Then, in the third and final tale, two children are forced to face off against terrifying ancestors.
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page turner
- By Athena Witherspoon on 11-03-22
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The Ancestors
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- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due, and Brandon Massey are three of the hottest names in suspense fiction. In this collection of flesh-crawling tales, each author contributes one deliciously twisted selection. A writer unearths dangerous truths in backwoods Mississippi and a man's sanity - and life - are threatened by disturbing visions. Then, in the third and final tale, two children are forced to face off against terrifying ancestors.
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3 Black Supernatural stories by 3 authors.
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By: Brandon Massey, and others
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The Reformatory
- A Novel
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
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Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.
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- By LadyLove on 11-07-23
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The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world . . . and redefine what it means to be afraid.
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Wondrous dark collection
- By Trav on 10-04-24
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Heading to the top of the genre!
- By KaHef on 12-13-06
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Wow, great story
- By Lyndenia on 12-03-13
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Don't Ever Tell
- By: Brandon Massey
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Award-winning suspense author Brandon Massey has received glowing praise for his entertaining chillers, including the Gold Pen Award winner Dark Corner. A woman concealing many dangerous secrets, Rachel has taken great pains to flee from her troubled past. But now a figure from long ago has returned and will stop at nothing to make her suffer for her sins.
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dont bother
- By LaPortia on 03-27-20
By: Brandon Massey
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The Quiet Ones
- By: Brandon Massey
- Narrated by: William Wells
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Twenty-five years ago, a jealous ex-boyfriend murdered Mallory Steele's mother. With no close family to take in Mallory and her older sister, the girls became wards of the state and were soon ripped apart, sent to live with different foster families. Taken in by loving parents, Mallory went on to a successful career as an investigative reporter at an Atlanta newspaper.
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the narrator is trash
- By LaPortia on 11-21-20
By: Brandon Massey
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Nana
- By: Brandon Massey
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Monica Stephens never knew her birth mother. Raised by a strict but loving adoptive parent, she blossomed into a woman with a thriving career as a pediatrician and a family of her own. But sometimes, she wondered about her origins. Especially her biological mother. Until Grace arrives. Confessing to be the birth mother Monica had long wanted to meet, Grace quickly becomes an indispensable member of the Stephens household. Cooking their meals. Looking after the children. Comforting Monica when the family dog is inexplicably killed. Tending to Monica as she falls ill....
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weak plot or ghost writer?
- By Chuck on 11-27-19
By: Brandon Massey
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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker, William DeMeritt
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to suspense. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future, Due's stories all share a sense of dread and fear balanced with heart and hope. In some of these stories, the monster is racism itself; others address the monster within, or other universal struggles set against the supernatural or surreal. All of them are written with Due's trademark attention to detail and deep characterization.
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Loved these stories!
- By Jackie on 04-21-23
By: Tananarive Due
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The Good House
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
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Tananarive Due, author of The Living Blood won the American Book Award and is praised as Stephen King's equal by Publishers Weekly. In The Good House, Due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small Pacific Northwest town. When a young woman returns to her grandmother's empty mansion, she is pitted against demonic forces that have poisoned her family for generations.
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Deeply Satisfying
- By Lee on 05-08-08
By: Tananarive Due
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My Soul to Keep
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost.
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A Book I Can't Keep
- By Mistsofjade on 07-19-20
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- By: George R. R. Martin
- Narrated by: Harry Lloyd
- Length: 10 hrs
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A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Though more improbable heroes may not be found in all of Westeros, great destinies lay ahead for these two . . . as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits. Featuring more than 160 all-new illustrations by Gary Gianni, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a must-have collection that proves chivalry isn’t dead—yet.
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What separates Lloyd from Dotrice
- By Pusang Tulog on 10-14-15
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The Between
- A Novel
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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When Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake. When Hilton's wife, the only elected African-American judge in Dade County, Florida, begins to receive racist hate mail from a man she once prosecuted, Hilton becomes obsessed with protecting his family. The demons lurking outside are matched by his internal terrors - macabre nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced.
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I finished with a headache! 🤯😱😭🤕
- By Onika Popo-James on 10-08-21
By: Tananarive Due
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The Stand
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.
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My First Completed Stephen King Novel
- By Meaghan Bynum on 02-20-12
By: Stephen King
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The Crown Tower (Dramatized Adaptation)
- The Riyria Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Michael J. Sullivan
- Narrated by: Bradley Foster Smith, Chris Genebach, Danny Gavigan, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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A warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm’s most valuable possessions. But it isn’t gold or jewels the old wizard is after, and this prize can only be obtained by the combined talents of two remarkable men. Now if Arcadius can just keep Hadrian and Royce from killing each other, they just might succeed.
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Nope
- By Anonymous User on 10-01-22
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- Dee in Philly
- 06-16-24
Entertaining
Thr stories were very entertaining and thought provoking. Horror comes in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons. My favorite character was Cowboy.
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- Priscilla
- 05-11-07
slow start, but good
this a collection of horror stories by different Black American authors the first few stories I was really disappointed, the ending just left you hanging, like the narrator was about to go the next section and.....nothing, after the first few stories it got really good with some very good short stories by Blk amer. authors , some of these I'd seen in print but never purchased. I want substance and not a lot of unnecessary drama in what I listen to or read. But after the first 3 I was pleasantly suprised, I will look for these authors works I just wished more were in audio format
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- shelia donaldson
- 02-14-18
What the?
Over all these stories were great and written and executed quite well. There were a couple that were too sexually explicit and one so bloody, I quite literally felt the need for a bath and a therapist.
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- HappyWifeHappyLife
- 01-25-17
Niambi Niambi has a VERY boring voice
I enjoyed all of the stories except the ones narrated by Niambi Niambi. The dullness of the voice just made me zone out. I was glad when the stories narrated by him would end! I will not ever purchase an Audiobook fully narrated by that dull voice!
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- TDRA89
- 11-27-10
DID NOT ENJOY
14 hours of my life that i will never get back. Good that I have to commute daily to work. I think I may have like 2 to 3 stories from this collection...Did not really enjoy this book at all. I thought some of the stories were very slow. They were unable to hold my attention. This is one book I wish that i could have gotten a refund on.... Buy this one at your own risk!!
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- Betty Campbell
- 11-11-17
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l loved this book. Lots of ups and downs. Laughing out loud while shaking my head!!! Something for everyone.
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- MCV
- 09-22-15
Will be buying paperback verson.
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I am attempting to become a horror writer myself. I have been practicing on short stories so DD was very useful for me.
What other book might you compare Dark Dreams to and why?
The least anthology i read was The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Six. Both contain stories that should not necessarily be listed as horror. Overall though DD is a far better collection. I only ended up skipping 3 stories stead much of the first half of BHY.
What about various’s performance did you like?
The many narrators did well. the women seemed to get a little more into the job than the men.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Some of the stories could work if this were turned into a mini series.
Any additional comments?
I was very hesitant to buy this initially. the focus on black writers caused me to suspect it would be all about "the plight of the black man+some scary stuff." to my pleasant surprise it was not. in fact the editor declares that his intention was to keep the anthology from becoming another stereotypical addition to the realm of Black literature. there were some race based stories, but they were they exception and not the norm.
overall i was very satisfied with the anthology. my two major issues is that most of the white people seem to be blonde hair blue eyed bombshells.
worse than that, for my personal need, the audio book chapters do not correspond with individual stories. thus 1 story could span several chapters. in most cases 2 separate stories will start or end in a chapter. then there's the possibility of a chapter concluding a story, contain a full story and then begin another story. for me, the chapters are the whole reason i will be returning this and getting the physical version.
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- Franklin
- 09-18-07
Good horror
This was a good ecclectic collection of short horror pieces, some better than others, and a few outstanding. Narration was fantastic, from a number of sincere and dramatic voices. In my experience with horror anthologies, a book is worth getting even if there are only two or three chilling and disturbing tales which you will keep in the background of your thoughts for weeks afterward, which this collection has.
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- Onika Popo-James
- 05-27-21
enjoyable!
I enjoyed this Anthology but there were 2 stories that were just a little bit too wordy/ surreal / Macabe for me. Most stories were not Steven King Scary. Besides that I enjoyed it. my favorite was Red! Good balance of fear, sex, character development, and surprise.
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- CSmith
- 08-04-17
meh
i was thoroughly disappointed by some of the stories. some were ok. a few were good.
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