Modern Phobias : A Litany of Contemporary Fears

Drawing from the hugely popular weeklyDaily Telegraphcolumn, the ultimate book of modern phobias!Did you leave work yesterday and have a stab of fear that you'd forgotten to press save before switching off your computer? Did you then go to the pub, get very drunk, then wake this morning unable to remember what awful things you might have said or done? You're not paranoid (most of the time) but suffering from modern phobias. Such as antefamaphobiathe fear that people were talking about you, but stopped just before you entered the room. Or agmenophobiathe fear that the line you join will end up being slower than the other one.The Book of Phobiaswill confirm every sneaking suspicion you have of a suffering from a weird and wonderful phobia, and highlight some you never knew you had!

Tim Lihoreau is the author of several books—he notably overcame cadophobia to write The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music with Stephen Fry—and is a contributor to both The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, something which helps his disabling contumaphobia.