Beneath The Skin

A horror anthology of phobias

Four days ago, on the 1st of August, something amazing was finally birthed and brought to the world. Like the grasping, rotted hands of the dead breaking through cemetery soil, up from the graves of countless killed characters, this book has risen from deep, shadowed fears and clawed its way out of the dark recesses of the minds of sixteen authors.

A book about phobias.

Irrational fears.

Unreasonable anxieties and despair.

Or are they irrational? Isn’t there some, maybe one thing, that caused them? An impetus. Catalyst. An inciting incident, if you will.

Some would say there has to be. I’m here to tell you, as a person who has lived with a phobia since he was born, that there doesn’t have to be. I think more than wondering why someone is scared of something, you should ask yourself what you are afraid of. Death? Pain? Your own demons that threaten to take hold? Maybe deep down, through all the reasons and excuses you tell yourself, you might find the truth, and it’s even more disturbing than you might’ve thought. That fear exists only to feed on you. To eat at you. To consume you. And if it can’t give you a reason, it will bite and chew and chomp and gnaw all the same.

Irrational.

Unreasonable.

Fear.

Beneath The Skin. A phobia anthology. Fifteen stories. Sixteen authors. Pure, irrational terror.

Do yourself a favor. Grab your copy today. You just might find the answer to a question you never thought to ask: What am I afraid of…and why?

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Fear has a thousand faces.

Some fears hide behind garish makeup. Some crawl on eight legs. Some slither through the grass. Some wait in mirrors and scream when you look away. Sometimes it is the wrongness in the hush between heartbeats — like the far-off jingle of an ice-cream truck on an empty street, promising something you don’t want.

Beneath the Skin: An Anthology of Phobias gathers sixteen indie voices into tales that pry open the everyday and let the dark in! From slow-burn psychological dread to supernatural shivers and edge-of-your-seat suspense, each tale stalks a different phobia — obsession, frailty, the uncanny — until the thing you try to ignore is sitting on your chest. Tales that refuse to stay buried!

The real question isn’t whether you’re afraid. It is whether your fear is waiting for you on the next page.
One anthology. Fifteen fears. No place is safe to hide.

Featuring stories by Christy Aldridge, Scott M. Baker, Derek Barton, T.D. Barton, Nicholas.Catron, J. Rocky Colavito, Ravyn Crescent, Claire Davon, Lee Edwards, Bradford Ellington, dDamian Foreman, Len Hutchinson, Angel R. Sanchez, Christina L. Spencer, Courtney Konstantin, and River Winslow.