While anthologies of seasonal horror such as Christmas or Halloween are becoming dime a dozen, it’s quite refreshing to see authors covering new ground.
Roots of My Fears, edited by Gemma Amor takes 14 diverse tales of ancestral horror in a collection that is more hit than miss.
Nuzo Onoh gives us a folk horror vibe with The House That Gabriel Built, which manages to build up quite the layered mythology within a short story.
The ever reliable Ramsey Campbell gives us a fascinating tale with The Faces at Pine Dunes, and Caleb Weinhardt’s In Silence, In Dying, In Dark gives us the unique perspective of a corpse that still has sentience as their time draws to a close. This is a haunting, yet oddly romanticized tale.
The very talented Gabino Iglesias brings the creep factor with Juracan, and Usman T Malik gives us a nightmarish small town vision with Laal Andhi.
If you’re in need of body horror Unsewn by Ai Jiang will scratch that itch.
V Castro treads now familiar territory with a story involving La Llorona, but still manages to break new ground and make a compelling short read.
Overall Roots of My Fears is a stellar collection of varied tales that give you a wide variety of ancestral horror that will scare, disgust and shock you, depending on who is telling the story.
Roots of My Fears edited Gemma Amor is available now in various formats from Titan Books.
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