A decent little addition to a Savage Worlds toolbox, considering the price.
The 13 pages are reduced by the cover, credits page, intro page, and product placement page to 9 pages of content. Of these 9 pages, 6 pages are tables upon which you can roll random fear effects.
Frights are divided up into levels, and the effect failure has on your character seems to step up nicely. That said, however, you're only going to get much use out of these tables if you are the type to use random selection of effects rather than assigning a condition or reaction freeform. Much of this product's usefulness depends heavily on your GMing/playing style. That's not a bad thing, necessarily, but it is a consideration.
Overall, the supplement achieves what it sets out to accomplish, which is add to the fear mechanics already present in Savage Worlds. Whether it does so in a way that you will enjoy or not is pretty much that one issue: do you like rolling randomly on big tables of stuff?
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