An anthology of original new horror stories Edited by Bram Stoker Award winners Vince Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from underrepresented backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, “other.”
Offering original new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Fears will provide the ultimate reading experience for horror fans who want to celebrate fear of “the other.” Be they of a different culture, a different background, a different sexual preference, a different belief system, or a different skin color, some people simply aren’t part of the dominant community—and are perceived as scary. Humans are almost instinctively inclined to fear what’s different, as foolish as that may be, and there are a multitude of individuals who have spent far too long on the outside looking in. And the thing about the outside is . . . it’s much larger than you think.
In Other Fears, horror writers from a multitude of underrepresented backgrounds will be putting a new, terrifying spin on what it means to be “the other.” People, places, and things once considered normal will suddenly appear different, striking a deeper, much more primal, chord of fear. Are our eyes playing tricks on us, or is there something truly sinister lurking under the surface of what we thought we knew? And who among us who is really of the other, after all?
22 short stories, 2 poems, 15 female contributors, 9 male—each bringing a unique perspective to this universal theme of “otherness” from the diversity of their backgrounds and experiences:
• Holly Walrath - “The Asylum”
• Denise Dumars - “Scrape”
• Annie Neugebauer - “Churn the Unturning Tide”
• Nathan Carson - “Help, I’m a Cop”
• M.E. Bronstein - “The Voice of Nightingales”
• Shanna Heath - “Miss Infection USA”
• Michael H. Hanson - “Night Shopper”
• Jonathan Lees - “It Comes in Waves”
• Maxwell Ian Gold - “Black Screams, Yellow Stars”
• Hailey Piper - “The Turning”
• Tananarive Due - “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”
• Shawn A. Cosby - “What Blood Hath Wrought”
• Alma Katsu - “Waste Not”
• Stephen Graham Jones - “Tiddlywinks”
• Jennifer McMahon - “Idiot Girls”
• Michael Thomas Ford - “Where the Lovelight Gleams”
• Ann Dávila Cardinal - “Invasive Species”
• Usman Mlk - “Mud Flappers”
• Gabino Iglesias - “There’s Always Something in the Woods”
• Eugen Bacon - “The Devil Don’t Come with Horns”
• Larissa Glasser - “Kalkriese”
• Tracy A Cross - “All Not Ready”
• Linda D Addison - “Illusions of the De-Evolved”
• Christina Sng - “Other Fears”
An anthology of original new horror stories Edited by Bram Stoker Award winners Vince Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from underrepresented backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, “other.”
Offering original new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Fears will provide the ultimate reading experience for horror fans who want to celebrate fear of “the other.” Be they of a different culture, a different background, a different sexual preference, a different belief system, or a different skin color, some people simply aren’t part of the dominant community—and are perceived as scary. Humans are almost instinctively inclined to fear what’s different, as foolish as that may be, and there are a multitude of individuals who have spent far too long on the outside looking in. And the thing about the outside is . . . it’s much larger than you think.
In Other Fears, horror writers from a multitude of underrepresented backgrounds will be putting a new, terrifying spin on what it means to be “the other.” People, places, and things once considered normal will suddenly appear different, striking a deeper, much more primal, chord of fear. Are our eyes playing tricks on us, or is there something truly sinister lurking under the surface of what we thought we knew? And who among us who is really of the other, after all?
22 short stories, 2 poems, 15 female contributors, 9 male—each bringing a unique perspective to this universal theme of “otherness” from the diversity of their backgrounds and experiences:
• Holly Walrath - “The Asylum”
• Denise Dumars - “Scrape”
• Annie Neugebauer - “Churn the Unturning Tide”
• Nathan Carson - “Help, I’m a Cop”
• M.E. Bronstein - “The Voice of Nightingales”
• Shanna Heath - “Miss Infection USA”
• Michael H. Hanson - “Night Shopper”
• Jonathan Lees - “It Comes in Waves”
• Maxwell Ian Gold - “Black Screams, Yellow Stars”
• Hailey Piper - “The Turning”
• Tananarive Due - “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”
• Shawn A. Cosby - “What Blood Hath Wrought”
• Alma Katsu - “Waste Not”
• Stephen Graham Jones - “Tiddlywinks”
• Jennifer McMahon - “Idiot Girls”
• Michael Thomas Ford - “Where the Lovelight Gleams”
• Ann Dávila Cardinal - “Invasive Species”
• Usman Mlk - “Mud Flappers”
• Gabino Iglesias - “There’s Always Something in the Woods”
• Eugen Bacon - “The Devil Don’t Come with Horns”
• Larissa Glasser - “Kalkriese”
• Tracy A Cross - “All Not Ready”
• Linda D Addison - “Illusions of the De-Evolved”
• Christina Sng - “Other Fears”