Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror

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
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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.