New Fears 2: Brand New Horror Stories by Masters of the Macabre

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So here we are again.

For those of you who missed out on the original volume in this series, let me explain what New Fears is all about. As a child I grew up reading numerous anthologies of ghost and horror stories, and back in those halcyon days they were nearly all un-themed. Each book contained a delicious blend of stories both supernatural and non-supernatural, some of which would be gory, some subtle, some surreal, some sad, some funny… In short, you never knew what kind of story you were going to be reading next, as a result of which each anthology was a leap into the unknown, a journey of twists and turns leading to a series of exhilarating destinations.

In recent years, though, market forces have dictated that if anthologies are to appeal to the reader, then they must have a theme. Hence we now see a proliferation of anthologies in which all the stories are about vampires, or zombies, or werewolves, or mad scientists; or anthologies in which all the stories are set in the same location; or anthologies whose stories all focus on a single, sometimes abstract concept: evolution, the dark, phobias, obsessions, dreams.

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