The White Guy Dies First

13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker - editor, Faridah J. Àbíké-Íyímídé, Kalynn Bayron, Kendare Blake, H.E. Edgmon, Lamar Giles, Chloe Gong, Alexis Henderson, Tiffany D. Jackson, Adiba Jaigirdar, Naseem Jamnia, Karen Strong, Mark Oshiro

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, André Santana, Angel Pean, Joy Ofodu, Kausar Mohammed, Nicky Endres

"This Young Adult book is a scream to listen to."—The Berkshire Eagle

This program features multicast narration as well as an author's note and acknowledgements read by the author.

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.

Full narrator list: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, André Santana, Angel Pean, Joy Ofodu, Kausar Mohammed, Nicky Endres, Samara Naeymi, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Torian Brackett

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

©2024 Terry J. Benton-Walker (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

“Skillfully pushes the boundaries of the genre…. Not for the faint of heart."—Kirkus Reviews

“Changing the horror game one short story at a time.”—Cosmopolitan

"Fans with strong stomachs will enjoy this."—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

More than I could’ve imagined

Such intentional and well written characters and stories. SO creative and engaging. Please please please that there be a part 2 anthology in the NEAR future. This is happily nestled in my classics and regular reads.

Scary

I was pleasantly surprised that there were a few stories that gave me the chills. very well written and creative takes on familiar encounters . I love learning of new authors for the Horror genre.

Wonderful Macabre

This anthology was just the most lovely to listen to. Listening to all these stories of queer folk intertwined with horror made my day, shoot, my summer... I will recommend this book forevermore. Thank you so much for putting it together and I look forward to whatever is next!

I loved this set!

I wasn't crazy about the first story, but the rest were great! it's tuff finding POC horror by POC voices. loved this pray to listen to others like this.

Amazing!!!!!

I love the arrangement of the stories, and how detailed things were! This book kept me on the edge of my seat!

Fresh Beginnings

Each Authors and Readers brought something different to each story which kept everything interesting and fresh. Some of the stories I even wish came with sequels. A great listen!

Mixed Bag

Some stories are real winners, others fall flat.

Also, listening to the girl who narrates the first and twelfth stories (“All Eyes On Me” and “Hell Is Other Demons”) breathe every 20 seconds was borderline infuriating.

Not as advertised

I was expecting that the stories were stories where the ethnic person’s character lived to see the end of the story and the White person was offed within the first two scenes.

I both appreciated and was annoyed that the antagonist in some of the stories was the person of color. I appreciated and enjoyed hearing horror stories where the main characters were people of color. The actors were superb. The storylines interesting enough.

But if you are going to bait me in with your title that the White guy dies first, please deliver fully and not half heartedly. Or change the title.