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Editor Mark Morris has released the line up for Titan Books’ first collection of horror stories, entitled New Fears, coming in September.

The Boggle Hole – Alison Littlewood

Shepherds’ Business – Stephen Gallagher

No Good Deed – Angela Slatter

The Family Car – Brady Golden

Four Abstracts – Nina Allan

Sheltered In Place – Brian Keene

The Fold in the Heart – Chaz Brenchley

Departures – A.K. Benedict

The Salter Collection – Brian Lillie

Speaking Still – Ramsey Campbell

The Eyes are White and Quiet – Carole Johnstone

The Embarrassment of Dead Grandmothers – Sarah Lotz

Eumenides (The Benevolent Ladies) – Adam Nevill

Roundabout – Muriel Gray

The House of the Head – Josh Malerman

Succulents – Conrad Williams

Dollies – Kathryn Ptacek

The Abduction Door – Christopher Golden

The Swan Dive – Stephen Laws

“Having grown up reading the Pan and Fontana Books of Horror and Ghost Stories, plus numerous other anthologies edited by the likes of Peter Haining, Michel Parry, Richard Davis and Mary Danby, it has always been one of my keenest ambitions to edit an annual – and hopefully long-running – non-themed horror anthology of new, never-before-published stories for the mass market,” Morris explained.

“Now thanks to Titan Books, I’ve finally got that chance. I’ve signed an initial contract for two volumes of New Fears, with hopefully more to come in the future.

“My aim with New Fears is to feature stories from established genre practitioners, emerging stars and complete unknowns. I want New Fears to be an annual showcase of the best and most varied short fiction that the horror genre has to offer, with the wide variety of approaches demonstrating how almost limitless the parameters of the genre can be.

“In the first volume you’ll find stories which explore ancient myths in new and innovative ways, stories of human evil, stories of unnamed and ambiguous terrors, and stories where the numinous and the inexplicable intrude upon what we perceive to be reality in unexpected ways. You’ll find humour, and hope, and grief, and sadness, and regret, and impenetrable darkness. You’ll find stories that surprise you, unsettle you and shock you. But most of all, you’ll find stories that grab you and draw you in and compel you to keep turning the pages.”