WINNER OF THE 2018 BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY. Includes Josh Malerman's 'House of the Head' as seen in Creepshow. An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by award-winning masters of the genre, including Josh Malerman, Ramsey Campbell, Alison Littlewood and Christopher Golden.
WINNER - 2018 BRITISH FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY
FEAR COMES IN MANY FORMS
The horror genre’s greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears kicking and screaming into the light in this collection of nineteen brand-new stories. In “The Boggle Hole” by Alison Littlewood an ancient folk tale leads to irrevocable loss. In Josh Malerman’s “The House of the Head” a dollhouse becomes the focus for an incident both violent and inexplicable. And in “Speaking Still” Ramsey Campbell suggests that beyond death there may be far worse things waiting than we can ever imagine... Numinous, surreal and gut wrenching, New Fears is a vibrant collection showcasing the very best fiction modern horror has to offer.
"New Fears" is a big anthology, clocking in at exactly four hundred pages, and it claims to feature "new horror stories by masters of the genre". These two points considered, I expected at least one or two stories to be real corkers, but none of the tales in the anthology impressed me greatly. Let's focus on the positives though. There were enough decent stories to warrant a three-star rating...but only just. My favourites were "The Boogle Hole" for the sentimentality of it, "Eumenides" for the dystopian atmosphere and creepiness, "The Embarrassment of Dead Grandmothers" because it's realistic horror, "Shepherds' Business" and "Dollies" for the ending, perhaps the only truly shocking endings of the anthology. "Four Abstracts" is also worth a quick mention, because it's original, well-written, and a bit weird.
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