The White Guy Dies First
13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power
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Publisher Description
13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.
The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this time, the white guy dies first.
Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don’t stay dead....
A museum curator who despises “diasporic inaccuracies.” A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An old house that just wants friends forever....
These stories are filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, step onto the old plantation, and open the magician’s mystery box because this time, the white guy dies first.
Edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker, including stories from bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming contributors: Adiba Jaigirdar, Alexis Henderson, Chloe Gong, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, H. E. Edgmon, Kalynn Bayron, Karen Strong, Kendare Blake, Lamar Giles, Mark Oshiro, Naseem Jamnia, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Terry J. Benton-Walker.
A collection you’ll be dying to talk about… if you survive it.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Benton-Walker (Blood Justice) crafts a trope-bending horror anthology, collecting 13 loosely linked tales by authors such as Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Chloe Gong, and Mark Oshiro. Centering protagonists of various body types, genders, and racial and ethnic backgrounds, each story dismantles racist tropes and casts "the white guy" as the first kill. Kendare Blake addresses East Asian stereotypes in "The Golden Dragon," which centers a Chinese-restaurant-owning Korean American family and a Japanese ghost that avenges rape survivors. Meanwhile, "Gray Grove" by Alexis Henderson grapples with monstrous malevolence on a former slave plantation. Contributions showcase powerful storytelling through unreliable narrators (as in Tiffany Jackson's "Everything's Coming Up Roses") and skilled foreshadowing (in Lamar Giles's "The Protégé"). Scares are plentiful but always impactful: cannibalism becomes a metaphor for cultural appropriation in H.E. Edgmon's "Best Served Cold," told by a two-spirit narrator, and "Break Through Our Skin" by Naseem Jamnia conceptualizes the transgender experience through depictions of body horror. Pair this intense, riveting collection with The Black Girl Survives in This One and The Blonde Dies First for a deep dive into subversive contemporary horror. Ages 13–up.
