Fresh Fear : An Anthology of Macabre Horror

FRESH FEAR: An Anthology of Macabre Horror is a collection of horror selected by editor William Cook, from some of the genre's best writers of dark fiction.

This anthology includes 28 stories of horror that deal with the psychological and emotional realm of human fear. Tales steeped in psychological horror, sit alongside visions of strange worlds and inner landscapes drenched in blood, penned by some of today's leading proponents of the craft. 'Quiet horror' sits comfortably next to more visceral portrayals of the monsters that lurk deep within the human heart. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famously once said, "where there is no imagination there is no horror" - the horror expressed by the authors in Fresh Fear show that imagination is indeed tantamount to excellent story-telling.

Included in the introduction is a selection from W.J. Renehan's The Art of Darkness: Meditations on the Effect of Horror Fiction.

Table of Contents
Scathe meic Beorh – God of the Wind
Robert Dunbar – High Rise
Ramsey Campbell – Welcomeland
Lily Childs – Strange Tastes
Lincoln Crisler – Nouri and the Beetles
Jack Dann – Camps
Thomas Erb – Spencer Weaver Gets Rebooted
Brandon Ford – Scare Me
Carole Gill – Raised
Lindsey Beth Goddard – The Tooth Collector
JF Gonzalez – Love Hurts
Dane Hatchell – ‘takers
Charlee Jacob – Inside the Buzzword Box
K Trap Jones – Demon Eyed Blind
Tim Jones – Protein
James Ward Kirk – Block
Roy C Booth & Axel Kohagen – Just Another Ex
Shane McKenzie – So Much Death
Shaun Meeks – Perfection Through Silence
Adam Millard – The Incongruous Mr Marwick
Christine Morgan – Nails of The Dead
Billie Sue Mosiman – Verboten
Chantal Noordeloos – The Door
Don Noble – Psych
WH Pugmire – Darkness Dancing in Your Eyes
William Todd Rose – The Grave Dancer
EA Irwin – Justice through Twelve Steps
Anna Taborska – Out of the Light

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William Cook is a New Zealand writer. He is the editor of Fresh Fear: An Anthology of Macabre Horror and author of the popular psychological thriller, Blood Related He is also the author of two non-fiction books: Gaze Into The Abyss: The Poetry of Jim Morrison and Secrets of Best-Selling Self-Published Authors.

He has also written many short stories that have appeared in anthologies and has authored four short-story collections: Psychological Horror Stories, Babylon Fading, Dreams of Thanatos & Dark Deaths and two collections of poetry: Journey: the search for something & Corpus Delicti. 

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Member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, SpecFicNZ & the SFFANZ.

"This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved Blood Related. Ordinarily I hate serial killer stories, but William Cook won me over. He is a unique and innovative talent."
- Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dog Days

"William Cook tells a gruesome story with a sense of authenticity that makes you question with considerable unease if it really is fiction, after all."
- Graham Masterton, author of The Manitou and Descendant