Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror
(eBook)

Simon Bestwick, Annie Neugebauer, Josh Malerman, Dale Bailey, Steve Duffy, Margo Lanagan, Bracken MacLeod, Tim Nickels, Stewart O'Nan, Priya Sharma, John Patrick Higgins, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Theresa DeLucci, Sharon Gosling, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Cluley, Carole Johnstone, Hailey Piper, Charles Birkin, Stephen Graham Jones Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread from such horror icons as Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Josh Malerman, Margo Lanagan, and more. The unsettling tales explore the nature of fear as it stirs in dysfunctional families, toxic friendships, and mismatched lovers, which culminates in relentless stalkers, remorseless killers, and perpetrators of savage rituals. Far beneath the mere supernatural lives something worse: the depths of human depravity. Your child is sacrificed in compensation for your social misstep. You compete in a sick game to save your loved ones. Your mom is insane, your dad is dying, your brother is not your brother, and you're stuck in the same house until one or all of you are dead. In her newest landmark anthology, Ellen Datlow has unearthed twenty-one exemplary tales of what people should fear the most: other people. Ellen Datlow is the quintessential editor of horror fiction. She has won multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards and has received lifetime achievement awards from the World Horror and World Fantasy Associations. Her many anthologies include the Best Horror of the Year series; Snow White, Blood Red; Lovecraft's Monsters; Naked City; The Monstrous; Body Shocks; and Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. Datlow lives in New York City. - A stellar new psychological horror anthology, curated by the genre's leading editor and featuring a stellar contributors list, focuses on one of the most basic-yet most terrifying-things: Fear. - World Horror, Bram Stoker, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow is widely considered the foremost horror editor of her generation; Datlow's lifetime sales are over 500,000 copies. - Anthology contributors include some of horror and dark fantasy's most prestigious authors: Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, Margo Lanagan, Priya Sharma, Laird Barron, and more. - Datlow has edited seven previous anthologies for Tachyon, including the bestsellers Lovecraft's Monsters and Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. He most recent Tachyon anthology was Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror - National marketing plan to include author and publisher social media campaigns, print and digital ARCs, book launch, author events and appearances, blog tour, podcasts, features, and interviews Introduction by Ellen Datlow "Bait" by Simon Bestwick "The Pelt" by Annie Neugebauer "A Sunny Disposition" by Josh Malerman "The Donner Party" by Dale Bailey "White Noise in a White Room" by Steve Duffy "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan "Back Seat" by Bracken MacLeod "England and Nowhere" by Tim Nickels "Endless Summer" by Stewart O'Nan "My Mother's Ghosts" by Priya Sharma "The Wink and the Gun" by John Patrick Higgins "One of These Nights" by Livia Llewellyn "LD50" by Laird Barron "Cavity" by Theresa DeLucci "Souvenirs" by Sharon Gosling "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates "The Wrong Shark" by Ray Cluley "21 Brooklands: next to Old Western, opposite the burnt out Red Lion" by Carole Johnstone "For decades, Ellen Datlow has set the bar. One of the most influential editors in the history of genre fiction, the gold standard of anthologists, and the ultimate tastemaker for horror stories. Datlow's career and reputation are entirely unique-there's only one Ellen." -Christopher Golden, author of Ararat "Ellen Datlow has long ago