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Post by dem on Jul 26, 2021 17:28:51 GMT
Mark Morris [ed.] - New Fears 2: More New Horror Stories by Masters of the Macabre (Titan, 2018) Design: Julia Lloyd: Illustration Natasha MacKenzie Mark Morris - Introduction
Priya Sharma - Maw
Stephen Volk - The Airport Gorilla
Robert Shearman - Thumbsucker
Gemma Files - Bulb
Kit Power - Fish Hooks
Tim Lebbon - Emergence
Benjamin Percy - On Cutler Street
Laura Mauro - Letters from Elodie
Ray Cluley - Steel Bodies
Tim Lucas - The Migrants
Brian Hodge - Rut Seasons
Catriona Ward - Sentinel
V. H. Leslie - Almost Aureate
Rio Youers - The Typewriter
Brian Evenson - Leaking Out
Steve Rasnic Tem - Thanatrauma
Aliya Whiteley - Pack Your Coat
John Langan - Haak
Paul Tremblay - The Dead Thing
Alison Moore - The Sketch
Bracken MacLeod - Pigs Don't Squeal in TigertownBlurb: Twenty-one brand-new stories of the ominous and terrifying from some of the horror genre’s most talented writers. In 'The Dead Thing' Paul Tremblay draws us into the world of a neglected teenage girl and her younger brother and the evil that lurks at the heart of their family. In Gemma Files' 'Bulb' a woman calls in to a podcast to tell the terrifying story of why she has escaped off-grid. And Rio Youers' 'The Typewriter' tells in diary form of the havoc wreaked by a malevolent machine. Infinitely varied and beautifully told, New Fears 2 is an unmissable collection of horror fiction.£1 from the Spitalfields crypt Charity Shop (Watney Market). Aliya Whiteley - Pack Your Coat: North Devon. Over several decades, a vast quantity of lone walkers along a coastal path have reported a person in distress on the rocks below. Invariably the unfortunate drowns before the coastguard arrives. No corpse is recovered. Sometimes the victim is male, others female, the constant being that they are dressed in an orange coat. Narrator believes this urban legend will follow her wherever she goes (until, presumably, she makes it a reality?). Stephen Volk - The Airport Gorilla: A cute souvenir monkey bearing 'made in China' tag and purchased from a special offer bin at a Schiphol gift shop grants each successive owner three wishes. Entirely oblivious to their good fortune, they damn themselves and those in close vicinity with fleeting whims of an "I wish this driver would put his bloody foot down" nature.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 26, 2021 17:49:21 GMT
Oddly, although there are authors in that book that I have heard of, none of them are highlighted on the front cover. Am I completely out of touch?
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 26, 2021 18:14:37 GMT
Mark Morris [ed.] - New Fears 2: More New Horror Stories by Masters of the Macabre (Titan, 2018) THUMBSUCKER Robert Shearman “Not now. Not soon. But some time.” One of those simply told stories that makes you ask of it – where have you been all of my life? If I tell you too much about it — beyond its title and that it is narrated by a son about his relationship with his father, and about the state of his, the narrator’s, own marriage — it would spoil it for you. It is both disturbing and moving, almost disgusting, too, almost sensual, in a disarming fashion. It makes me doubt myself as I grow older. A new fear. A bijou maw. Aickman comes to mind, but that might give you the wrong impression. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 26, 2021 18:52:30 GMT
Oddly, although there are authors in that book that I have heard of, none of them are highlighted on the front cover. Am I completely out of touch? I'm not too up on the current horror scene, but Gemma Files ( Experimental Film) and Paul Tremblay ( A Head Full of Ghosts) are both big enough deals for me to have heard of them. In fact, I highly recommend both of those books. |
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Post by dem on Jul 26, 2021 19:36:02 GMT
Oddly, although there are authors in that book that I have heard of, none of them are highlighted on the front cover. Am I completely out of touch? I'm not too up on the current horror scene, but Gemma Files ( Experimental Film) and Paul Tremblay ( A Head Full of Ghosts) are both big enough deals for me to have heard of them. In fact, I highly recommend both of those books. I pride myself on being entirely out of touch with it, but it is hard not to have heard of Stephen Volk, Gemma Files, Tim Lebbon, SRT. Priya Sharma or Robert Shearman (met him at the Zombie Apocalypse 2 launch some years ago, a warm and charming guy, took to him straight away. Come to think, he wrote the introduction to Anna Taborska's Bloody Britain, too). |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 26, 2021 19:53:56 GMT
I'm not too up on the current horror scene, but Gemma Files ( Experimental Film) and Paul Tremblay ( A Head Full of Ghosts) are both big enough deals for me to have heard of them. In fact, I highly recommend both of those books. I pride myself on being entirely out of touch with it, but it is hard not to have heard of Stephen Volk, Gemma Files, Tim Lebbon, SRT. Priya Sharma or Robert Shearman (met him at the Zombie Apocalypse 2 launch some years ago, a warm and charming guy, took to him straight away. Come to think, he wrote the introduction to Anna Taborska's Bloody Britain, too). I am familiar with Stephen Volk and Tim Lebbon. But they are not mentioned on the front cover. |
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Post by dem on Jul 26, 2021 20:13:29 GMT
I am familiar with Stephen Volk and Tim Lebbon. But they are not mentioned on the front cover. That's me being clumsy. I was actually agreeing with you. I'd have expected Titan to promote the participation of Volk, Lebbon, Shearman on the cover, but it's refreshing if they've gone with lesser known (?) authors. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 26, 2021 20:22:34 GMT
I am familiar with Stephen Volk and Tim Lebbon. But they are not mentioned on the front cover. That's me being clumsy. I was actually agreeing with you. I'd have expected Titan to promote the participation of Volk, Lebbon, Shearman on the cover, but it's refreshing if they've gone with lesser known (?) authors. Actually, I wanted you to confirm that I am completely out of touch. |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 27, 2021 7:56:42 GMT
That's me being clumsy. I was actually agreeing with you. I'd have expected Titan to promote the participation of Volk, Lebbon, Shearman on the cover, but it's refreshing if they've gone with lesser known (?) authors. Actually, I wanted you to confirm that I am completely out of touch. Me too. The only name I knew on the front cover is Gemma Files. |
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Post by dem on Aug 6, 2024 13:39:34 GMT
"It kind of ... pulses, first inward and then outward, and opens up like a gigantic umbrella, a vampire fucking squid, with red and purple teeth all ringed around and dripping ...."
Rio Youers - The Typewriter: Set in London 1964, told in journal form. An Oliver no. 6 purchased in an Old Kent Road bric-a-brac, is possessed by the spirit of its previous owner. Back in 1910, Emory Grist dismembered six women in Whitechapel over a three-week period. The diarist, a happily married father, suddenly isn't. We leave him, Samurai sword concealed beneath long coat, in a crowded Ten Bells ...
Gemma Files - Bulb: 'Bronwyn' aka Harmony6893 breaks cover to record an interview for a GridLock podcast, explaining why she has abandoned use of any kind of electronical technology or telecommunication device to live off grid and anonymous (in as much as one can). It began when she brought home a boyfriend to her newly leased condo in Toronto's Adelaide West. Joe Mackay, engineering student, has not been seen since ...
Paul Tremblay - The Dead Thing: Owen brings the soggy, reeking whateveritis in from the backyard, hides it in a shoebox away from perma drunk angry dad and even big sister, Hannah. Their abject living conditions - Hannah does her best, but the place has gone to ruin since Mum baled out - just got worse.
Enjoyed The Typewriter, perhaps tellingly, the most trad horror of the three.
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