The Frighteners was Sean O'Brien's second collection, following The Indoor Park, which won him a Somerset Maugham Award. It extended the political and imaginative range of his work, including many poems responding to Margaret Thatcher's Britain and the Miners' Strike of 1984.
- ISBN13 9781852240134
- Publish Date 26 February 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English