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4.5 out of 5 stars (46)

A chilling and haunting poetry book that delves deep into the twisted realm of human phobias. Through evocative verses, the poet weaves a tapestry of horror that explores the darkest corners of the human mind, where fears take on their own life.

Structured around a variety of phobias, each poem in the book serves as a portal into a different nightmare. From Agoraphobia's suffocating confinement to Zemmiphobia's primal terror the poet captures the essence of each fear with visceral and macabre imagery, plunging readers into a world of creeping shadows and heart-pounding suspense.

As readers journey through the book, they encounter the raw psychological torment of those trapped in the throes of their phobias. The verses vividly depict the internal battles between reason and irrationality, often leading to gruesome and unexpected outcomes. The dark narratives reveal the fragility of the human psyche when faced with paralyzing fear.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CL2N5V1H
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 14, 2023
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.9 MB
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  • Book 1 of 3 ‏ : ‎ Mental Turmoil Series
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 15 - 18 years
  • Best Sellers Rank: #1,814,896 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Stevie Hostetter was born and raised in Alamosa, Colorado, where a love for storytelling began at an early age. Inspired to become an author since the age of six, Stevie has always turned to writing as a way to express emotion, find meaning, and connect with others.

A devoted parent to a 12-year-old son, Ely, Stevie finds joy in family life alongside a beloved dog and a small flock of ducks. These everyday moments of love and resilience often influence the heart behind the words on the page.

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4.5 out of 5 stars
46 global ratings

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Customers find the poetry collection insightful and well-written, with each poem delving deeply into various human fears. The book is entertaining to read and emotionally engaging, with one customer noting how the poems explore phobias without being overly macabre.
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18 customers mention content, 15 positive, 3 negative
Customers appreciate the insightful set of poems in the book, with one customer noting the specific phobia titles and another finding them occasionally thought-provoking.
Stevie Hostetter has given us a fascinating collection of poetry. I was taken into the world of fear in a wholly unique way. It hit all the senses....Read more
...The writing is incredible, beautiful and little scary all at the same time. I actually looked up what a Great Mole Rat is....Read more
...So as I read the poetry for each one it was inciteful, fun, interesting, curious and different for each one....Read more
This delightful collection consists of alphabetized phobias, each with a short poem. Many hit the spot, helping me understand what others feel....Read more
8 customers mention readability, 8 positive, 0 negative
Customers find the book entertaining and captivating to read.
...Very nice and enjoyable read. Would recommend everyone take a read at this book and learn something.Read more
...and the vivid imagery and emotional depth are both haunting and captivating....Read more
...Praying for everyone who's living with any of these. Great read by the way.Read more
...take anything away from the author's writing and definitely a worthwhile quick read.Read more
6 customers mention emotional, 5 positive, 1 negative
Customers find the book emotionally engaging as it delves deeply into various human fears, with one customer noting that it explores these themes without being overly macabre.
...It was a lovely melding of things I enjoy- poetry and emotion. There were a few poems that stood out and resonated really well....Read more
...The writing is incredible, beautiful and little scary all at the same time. I actually looked up what a Great Mole Rat is....Read more
...Each poem delves into a different fear, from agoraphobia to xenophobia, and the vivid imagery and emotional depth are both haunting and captivating....Read more
...I found the writing descriptive and enjoyable, without being overly macabre. A worthwhile read.Read more
6 customers mention writing quality, 6 positive, 0 negative
Customers praise the writing quality of the book.
...I am not normally a poetry person but I thought this was really well written....Read more
...I easily read this amazing collection in one sitting. The writing is incredible, beautiful and little scary all at the same time....Read more
...I found the writing descriptive and enjoyable, without being overly macabre. A worthwhile read.Read more
...It hit all the senses. Well written easily relatable. I highly recommend.Read more
Another great book of poems
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Another great book of poems
Another great book of poems. This time, it was phobias. There are so many different phobias out there that I never knew existed. This was a very interesting view if all those phobias and mine just happened to be one of them. Coulrophobia 🤡😱
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  • Rahsean Holmes
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's a beautifully crafted collection of poems that delve deeply into various human fears.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024
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    I recently read *Abyss of Nightmares: Poetry Illuminating Phobias* by Stevie Hostetter, and it was quite an experience. As someone who enjoys exploring the darker corners of the human psyche, this book really hit the mark. Each poem delves into a different fear, from agoraphobia to xenophobia, and the vivid imagery and emotional depth are both haunting and captivating. It's not often that I find poetry that resonates so deeply with my own anxieties, but Hostetter has a way of bringing these phobias to life in a way that feels both personal and universal.

    What I really appreciated about *Abyss of Nightmares* is how it manages to be both unsettling and beautiful at the same time. The poems are raw and honest, shedding light on fears that many of us might not even realize we have. It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you've finished reading it. Whether you're a fan of poetry or just looking to explore the darker side of human emotions, I highly recommend giving this book a read. It's a journey into the abyss that's well worth taking.
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  • Jack Reagan
    4.0 out of 5 stars A quick, interesting collection -- with some entries stronger than others
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2024
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    I am not a man who necessarily gravitates to the poetry sections in bookstores, so let me preface this review by acknowledging that I have no basis for evaluating meter, enjambment (had to look it up), or caesura (same), and so will not. Instead, it is the subject (and therefore substance) of the poems that are of interest to me, as I do visit the horror and psychiatry sections of bookstores, enjoying the former and being interested in the latter.

    Some of Hostetter's poems are really quite good. My favorites were Frigophobia (cold), globophobia (balloons), janitrophobia (trash), rupophobia (contamination), taphonophobia (buried alive), and vermiphobia (worms). Thankfully, I suffer from none of these, but the poems are of particular interest because they involve some visceral imagery helping the reader understand some of what goes on inside a sufferer's mind (or might--I hope Ms. Hostter doesn't suffer from each) when confronted with the object of their fear.

    For example, vermiphobia speaks of "Believing they put a hole through you and eat your insides. / Munching away at your intestines," frigophobia of cranking the thermostat up to 100 degrees and still fearing numbness in the extremities, and taphobobia of the claustrophobia mixed with despair that leads one to "cry and cry...and pound on the walls" with so much dirt overhead. My clumsy prose restatements don't do the descriptions justice, but they illustrate Ms. Hofstetter's obvious talent for conceptualizing the source of the fear and, if not forcing the reader to experience it (thank God), at least think about why it can be so traumatizing. In the cited poems, plus the others I've called favorites, she quite effectively shares sense impressions.

    In others, the subjects of the fears are more afterthoughts to the idea of fear itself, by which I mean that Ms. Hofstetter may therein help us imagine a person's heart racing and palms becoming clammy, etc., but that fear response is the focus, rather than the specific phobia that triggers the reaction. Admittedly, poetry more than most genres is judged by the eye-of-the-beholding-reader, but in those entries, the poetry would do well to put her and our focus on the causes. Those specific poems will be different ones for different people, and I do not mean to suggest that she ignores the specific subject, just that it's of secondary importance in the relevant poem. Were one to trim a line or two from each of these, lines that do effectively share feelings related to the phobia, many of the poems would be interchangeable. And this is unfortunate because the reader can obviously see that, were she to do otherwise, Ms. Hofstetter has a gift of description that goes beyond chilled blood, feelings of nausea, and minds racing with panic.

    Incidentally, I did not know the words for most of the fears enumerated in the poems, nor even that a few existed (the fear of knowledge and the fear of returning home coming to mind as being particularly interesting to me). I credit the author for mostly avoiding the more commonly discussed ones (spiders, heights, public speaking, etc.).

    Poetry is just so damn subjective, and I really wish that you would read this as a 4.5-star review, even if Amazon allows no such thing. To be clear, I enjoyed reading through this (in one sitting while waiting for my car's oil change), and I am glad that I purchased this book, even though I'm not a fan of poetry for poetry's sake. I cannot think of a stronger recommendation than that.
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  • SEAC
    5.0 out of 5 stars 5
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2025
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    If you follow my reviews, then you know poetry always gets 5 stars. It's art, and I'm not one to judge art.
    This is a quick read of poems, and I think I learned some new words. With that author's note at the end, I'm not sure which words were made up and which ones weren't, but that won't stop me from trying to toss a few into a conversation if there s a dull lull that needs some thing to liven things up.
    These poems are full of anxiety. I maybe even learned to fear some new things that I never did fear. Kidding, not kidding. Anyway, I had my phone in my hand, had a few minutes of downtime, downloaded this book, and that's that. Glad I read it
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  • scarlettanomalyreads
    3.0 out of 5 stars oh the beauty in horror
    Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2025
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    Preface, I am not normally a poetry person but I thought this was really well written.

    I have this thing about odd facts, and the different fears really ignited that for me, fear of hotels?? Interesting but horrifying to think of and I love weird stories like that and tapping into my obsession with fact or fiction you decide type scenario, Jonathon Frakes is that you??

    Phobias are wild, they don't have to make sense to be terrifying to the person, and that's the scary part.
    I have an, odd one, that I have thankfully always managed to not have to fight in a life or death situation but I cannot imagine if I did.

    This was a good one and 100% entertaining to read.
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  • Timothy B.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully poetry and learn interesting things - a win win
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2023
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    I now know that I suffer from Coulrophobia. Could never put a name to it, but now I can. I easily read this amazing collection in one sitting. The writing is incredible, beautiful and little scary all at the same time. I actually looked up what a Great Mole Rat is. And yes, its pretty terrifying. Make sure you do the challenge the author lists at the end. I'm still figuring out which is which.
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  • Carmen M Colon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry that taught me a few a things!!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024
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    I really had fun reading the poetry, but I must admit Stevie had me at the alphabet! THEN, she had me sitting here (almost 60 now!) trying to pronounce these phobias OUT LOUD! I was already in a good mood by the time I got through the Table of Contents. (Great call!) So as I read the poetry for each one it was inciteful, fun, interesting, curious and different for each one. It's a laid back read with a cup of tea, coffee - not sure I'd drink any hard lemonade with this one! I might get convinced I have them! But overall a wonderful fun book. So recommended. Imagining which of my hypochondriac friends I'll be getting this for next April 1st (they won't get it but I'll bet you will) Also going to check out Lynn on Medium. Kudos. So fun.
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  • Amzi
    4.0 out of 5 stars So many phobias!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2025
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    This delightful collection consists of alphabetized phobias, each with a short poem. Many hit the spot, helping me understand what others feel. Some also hit close to home! The author claims to have added some some made-up fears, but they all entertained. I found the writing descriptive and enjoyable, without being overly macabre. A worthwhile read.
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  • Ajay
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another great read.
    Reviewed in Australia on October 25, 2023
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    Personally, I found Abyss of Nightmares: Poetry Illuminating Phobias by Stevie Hostetter to be an excellent read. It was informative, relatable in parts, and well-written. Stevie has done an excellent job in giving me goosebumps with her way of writing.
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  • Beenish Ali
    5.0 out of 5 stars Human phobias
    Reviewed in Canada on May 13, 2025
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    A collection of short poems about different human phobias. The author uses strong and emotional words to describe how these fears feel. Each poem helps you understand how it feels to live with that fear. I enjoyed reading this poetry book.
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  • Busy Bee
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting collection of phobia-themed poems
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2025
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    This is a set of short poems ordered alphabetically from Agoraphobia to Zemmiphobia, each describing what the phobia sufferer is afraid of and how their phobia makes them feel. Outwith its target audience of modern poetry fans, this would be a useful text to use as creative writing prompts in a classroom setting with older students, as the idea of describing phobias and how they make people feel would be an interesting creative writing exercise.
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  • SE.
    5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2023
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    Poems about phobias, what a clever idea. If you, like me, live with a phobia, you will understand these poems.
    As irrational as a phobia is it's affect can be debilitating, to say the least.
    Thank you Stevie for this book. Highly recommended!!
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars relatable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2024
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    Being a sufferer of GAD I strangely found myself smiling and nodding at some of the descriptions in this book. Glad it was a short read as not to induce my own anxieties. Really enjoyed
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