This was really good read over 7 stories by 9th but Then my father died on the 13th I lost interest in the idea of creepy horror stories.Kit Power Fish Hooks is outstanding Thumbsucker is funny,the gorilla too is good.New Fears 2 is lot better than one.

That's disturbingThis is a wonderful collection of horror short stories brought together by Mark Morris.Of the takes I should make mention of 'Almost Aurate' by VH Leslie, I willingly followed the McGuffin while other subtle breadcrumbs were being quietly laid. 'Thanatrauma' by Steve Rasnic Tem life should go on after someone you have loved dies, but grief can be lonely and all encompassing to the exclusion of all else.

Excellent anthology, every bit as good as the first (if not a bit better). Personal highlights were stories by John Langan, Robert Shearman, Aliya Whiteley and Priya Sharma, but everyone should find something to enjoy here. Some stories are old-fashioned horror, others are closer to contemporary weird fiction, some have barely any horror element at all - but all were worth reading. Essential for any reader of short stories, whether you're a genre fan or not.

Unfortunately no great stories in it, other than maybe the Thumsuckers one. Some good stories like the Typewriter but nothing else I found particularly novel.

Felt like I skipped around more than read through the book. Nothing to make the reader feel scared or uncomfortable at all. No personal feelings of dread and worst of all, nothing to think of or ruminate about after the stories. I guess that in itself is a form of horror though.

‘Maw’ by Priya Sharma‘The Airport Gorilla’ by Stephen Volk: A traveller picks up a soft toy from an airport gift shop, unaware that the creature can hear human thoughts and grant wishes. Decent, but not up to the standard of other stories I've read by Volk.‘Thumbsucker’ by Robert Shearman: The narrator's father starts sucking his thumb – a practice frowned upon in the world of this story. Disturbing as hell, and a very good example of how non-sexual physical intimacy can be used to stomach-churn...

Rounded up from 2.5 stars. Decent up to the 50% mark but largely downhill after that. John Langan is, as always, astonishing.

Full disclosure: I have one story in the anthology.NF2 is an unthemed horror anthology featuring many of today's best and brightest. I enjoyed all the stories (no mean feat for an anthology). Priya Sharma's gritty, rural, British isle tale "Maw," and Robert Shearman's it's-so-wrong-just-so-wrong-but-so-great "Thumbsuckers," and John Langan's genius literary/myth/mythology mash up "Haak," and Brian Evenson's creep-out "Leaking Out," and Laura Mauro's insidious slow burn "Letters from Elodie," and...

Mark Morris returns with his highly anticipated sequel to last year’s superb multi-author anthology “New Fears” with, wait for it, “New Fears 2”. It was also particularly nice to see a line from my Ginger Nuts of Horror review quoted in the introduction “oozes quality from an eclectic range of leading writers from the world of horror and dark fiction”. In fact, I loved “New Fears” so much it also shot into my top ten releases of 2017 over at HorrorTalk.Com where I also review. This time out 21 s...

A great collection of horror short fiction. I'm glad that it wasn't "themed". That's the current trend: All Lovecraft, all ghost, all vampire, etc. This was truly a mixed bag and you never knew what you were going to get, which made it all the scarier. There was a very Twilight Zone feel to going in blind like that. A strong recommend.

It follows the 2017 publication of 'New Fears', and, whilst editor Mark Morris states there is no specific them that the writers were asked to write about, there seems to this reader to be a thread running through the tales that speak to a very modern fear of not being seen.Visibility, being seen and believed are motifs that run through tales which range from experimental story telling (Paul Tremblay) to body horror (Kit Power), elegant, literary horror from Laura Mauro, and psychological chills...

"New Fears 2" is a strong collection of unsettling horror fiction where the quality is unusually high throughout. I feel we've (rightfully) moved beyond horror which is there just to shock or disgust and many of the stories here wouldn't feel out of place in a 'literary' anthology which is to the book's credit. Some of them are the best I've read in any genre.Of course, there remain one or two that didn't gel for me and that knocks one of the stars off. I won't mention those I was less keen on,

I have to state first that I'm in this collection but I loved the other stories as much as New Fears 1. Every stripe of horror is contained within, with a variety of themes and styles. Each story has something to recommend it. My own personal favourites were by Paul Tremblay, Bracken Macleod, John Langan (a strange, rich story that reveals the dark heart of gods and a well loved children's tale), Ray Cluley, Laura Mauro, Stephen Volk and the tremendous "Thumbsucker" by Rob Shearman.

2.5 This volume suffered the sophomore slump as there were more misses than hits as compared to the first. A handful of strong and weak entries mixed with middle ground stuff. Rating for each story:1. Maw - 2/52. The Airport Gorilla - 2.5/53. Thumbsucker - 3.5/54. Bulb - 3/55. Fish Hooks - 4/5 (A piercing little ditty)6. Emergence - 4/5 (Don’t go into that rabbit hole)7. On Cutler Street - 1/58. Letters From Elodie - 1/59. Steel Bodies - 2.5/510. The Migrants - 2/511. Rut Seasons - 2.5/512. Sent...

This was good at times and bad at others. I wasn't invested in the majority of the stories 😕

I enjoyed all of these, some more than others, but my favorites were "Steel Bodies" (about a sort of exorcism aboard a ship in a scrapyard), "Pack Your Coat" (about the appeal of urban legend ghost stories), "Leaking Out" (a masterpiece of haunted house minimalism from Brian Evenson) and, most of all, "Haak" by John Langan (a Conradian piece of nautical/mythological/MR Jamesian haunted academia). I really recommend this; in fact I went ahead and bought the first New Fears anthology immediately a...

Second volume that maintains the high standard of the first, with really no filler at all. There is no theme, but the feel is generally towards the subtly creepy and thought provoking end of horror. Possibly a little weirder than last year, and that's not a bad thing at all, but still with a good mix of the more traditional. All good late night reading fare, but one that really stuck out as going the extra mile to be unconventionally disturbing was Thumbsucker..euch.

A superb anthology packed full of talent. Recommended

My review was first posted on Northern Plunder, you can read more of my reviews there too.I saw the first New Fears anthonlogy get released last year and my friend Amy was kind enough to give me her copy once she was done, but like with most of my books I never got around to reading it.So when the publishers reached out offering the second installment for review I was like hell yeah with the intention to read both back to back.Mark Morris sets out on creating horror anthologies with no theme to

Cages broken as no stronger than those earlier cardboard boxes. Monkey’s PaWWW or Flannery O’Connor’s Gorilla or Bracken Macleod’s Tiger Tiger, this book snarls or snickers beyond your closed bedroom door. Left you sucking your own thumb. The bulbs about to blow. Thanatrauma.The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long to post here.Above is its conclusion.