Old Fears

By John Wooley

Book Overview

In this classic groundbreaking novel of suspense and terror, authors John Wooley and Ron Wolfe create "a deliciously terrifying read." After twenty years away, Mick Winters has come home to find his worst childhood fears waiting for him. The spider so big it fills the mouth of the culvert. The black shadow lurking in the old coal pit. The slithering thing under the bed. Old fears, nothing but figments of a child's imagination. Except -- why is Jerry Meyers lying in the morgue with a torn jugular full of insect venom? What's terrorizing the miners of Tanapah, Oklahoma? And what dragged Mike Henshaw beneath his bed and suffocated him? A horror epidemic for which there is no explanation -- and no cure -- descends upon the town and turns Mick's dream vacation into a nightmare where old fears become deadly realities.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425064697
• ISBN13: 9780425064696
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Old Fears revisited

I read this book decades ago, and I never looked at a basement the same way. Scared the heck outta me. It was just as much fun this time. A quick entertaining read.

Entertaining horror novel

Mick Winters returns home to settle the affairs of his late aunt and close up his childhood home. It has been years since he has visited the town or the old place and memories haunt him every where he goes. Especially disturbing are the childhood fears that begin to surface and take on a life of their own. Like the thing in the cellar, the giant spider in the culvert, the monster under the bed, and the evil in the town coal pit. Somehow these "old fears" are coming to life and feeding on the humans who invented them. And only one man knows the impossible truth as people begin to die at the hands of something evil...I read this years ago when it first came out and remembered it being pretty entertaining. I recently picked it back up and breezed through it in a few days. Recommended for horror fans who want a quick, entertaining read.

Old Fears scared me beyond belief.

The stories contained in this book stike on the fears of our childhoods. Some of the childhood fears that this book makes references to are things like being afraid of the dark, afraid of going into small spaces like a culvert at the end of the driveway, or being afraid something is under our beds. My favorite story in particular is the one about the boy in his room in bed. He's speaking to the monster under his bed and is under the impression that if he's under the covers, he's safe. That was not a correct assumption on the boy's part. I highly recommend this book, but only for those who have enough courage to withstand the fears that are so intensely described in this book. For those of you who do not like intense horror stories, I wouldn't read this one.

Greatest book that I have ever read.

I was walking through my highschool library one fateful afternoon about four years ago looking for my next book report book. When I saw the book sitting on the bottom shelf in the very corner. So I read the cover and decided to get it. The book took me a day to read. I never put it down I couldn't. It explains people's fears and then there fears coming to life to haunt the people that had them. Some even resulting in death. I have read many novels on many different subjects and this book is a fun read that will leave you thinking......I've been looking to find this book to buy it for my own collection but I can't seem to find it. So If you are lucky enough to find it, please read it. You will thank me for it. If you own it and you want to part with it E-mail me.