No ax murderers hunting sexy teens. No brutal torture for torture's sake.Phantom goes beyond the scare! From paranoid gold prospectors to lonelycurators, Satan-worshipping Long Island teens, metaphysics-obsessed televisionreporters, and to Peter and Olivia and their devastating final choices detailedin the last pages of this anthology, the fourteen stories of Phantompresent their horrors differently, but they all ask: How does anyone livethrough this? Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace have collected fourteen stories by today'smost thoughtful writers of horror, each asking the questions beyond "what isfrightening"? This is just the beginning, however, with stories from SteveRasnic Tem, Lavie Tidhar, F. Brett Cox, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Berman, NickMamatas, Michael Cisco, among other fresh voices in horror.