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Editor and reader living in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Currently very interested in film criticism, horror, and idler's literature.

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The New Black is a collection of 20 neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently …

Review of 'The new black' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

There are two distinct types of stories here: horror stories, and melancholy contemporary fiction stories. Of the horror stories, the best was "Windeye" by Brian Evenson. Of the m.c.f. stories, the best was "How" by Roxane Gay. I wish this had had more horror stories than it did, but I always feel churlish saying that about a genre-adjacent collection. Many of the m.c.f. stories didn't appeal to me at all.