Jordan PeelesampampnbspGet Out Political Horrorampampnbspis a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploringampampnbspGet Outs roots in the horror tradition and its complex and timely commentary on twentyfirstcentury US race relations. The first section The Politics of Horror traces the influence of the gothic and horror tradition on Peeles film from ShakespearesampampnbspOthello through the female gothic and Ira LevinsampampnbspRosemarys BabyampampnbspandampampnbspThe Stepford Wives to the modern horror film including the zombie rural suburban and bodyswap subgenres of horror. The second section The Horror of Politics takes upampampnbspGet Outs varied political interventionsnotably its portrayal of the continuation of slavery and the deformation of the black body and mind in white socalled progressive America. Contributors address Peeles film alongside African American figures such as Nat Turner W.ampampnbspE.ampampnbspB. Du Bois and James Baldwin. Taken together the essays illuminate howampampnbspGet Outampampnbspstands as both a groundbreaking intervention in the horror tradition as well as a devastating unmasking of racism in the contemporary United States.