New Terrors

New Terrors is a horror anthology published by Pan in 1980 as a paperback original. Ramsey Campbell wrote the introduction, and the volume collects nineteen stories, several of them appearing in print for the first time.

The contributors form a wide range of voices from the horror field. Robert Aickman, Lisa Tuttle, Tanith Lee, Gene Wolfe, Kit Reed, Graham Masterton and Karl Edward Wagner are among them, alongside Joan Aiken, Bob Shaw, Russell Kirk and Manly Wade Wellman. Steve Rasnic Tem, Marc Laidlaw, Cherry Wilder, Daphne Castell, Peter Valentine Timlett and James Wade also take part, and Dennis Etchison and Mark Johnson co-write one piece. Campbell closes the book with his own story, The Fit.

Taken together, the stories cover many approaches to the uneasy and the uncanny, from ghostly unease and domestic menace to darker, stranger turns. Titles such as Sun City, Bridal Suite, The Gingerbread House and Love Me Tender show the variety on offer.