Phobic: Modern Horror Stories (Book 3 of 4 Comma Modern Horror)

206 pp. Sounds Between, The Part of Me that Died, The Dogs, Safe as Houses, The Coue, Saturday Mary, Lancashire, The Foster Parents, A Fresh Pair of Eyes, Tight Wrappers, Horror Story, The Deadly Space Between, By the River, Digging Deep, Mortal Coil. Britain's leading contemporary authors experiment with the horror genre in this anthology of chilling short stories. Contributors including Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrel Boyce, and Ramsey Campbell expose the dark areas that lie beneath modern life with alarming results as internet chat rooms revive ancient curses and children's TV characters acquire lives of their own.