After Midnight (1989)

On the first day of the semester, Allison and Cheryl attend their  Psychology of Fear class.  Allison has a bad feeling about the class, but Cheryl isn't having any of it. Then the Professor puts a gun to the head of a student, before blowing his own head off.  Oh ha ha, he's fine.  It was all a joke. Yes, that was a good one.  No one would ever be traumatized by that.

After sanctions from the college, the Professor returns to his boring old lectures, but tells the class that anyone who wants to  discuss real fear should meet at his home that night. Oi! Allison doesn't want to go because she has a bad feeling about the meeting, but Cheryl will have none of it. After all it's at the professor's home, so what could go wrong?

A small group of students arrive at the professor's home and meet in the library where they take turns telling scary stories.  The stories are all pretty tame, but Allison has a bad feeling about it and as usual Cheryl couldn't care less.  At this point Allison's lack of action in response to her psychic intuition makes you not care about her well being.  She's had plenty of internal warnings, but she just ignored them. So good luck, chickie.

The storyline with the professor is the glue that holds together this anthology, which consists of the stories the students tell:

1. A young couple look for help at an old house rumored to be haunted after their car breaks down on an isolated road at night.
2. Four teenage girls stop for gas late at night at an isolated gas station where they find a crazy redneck with killer dogs.
3. An overnight answering service gets repeated calls from a creepy nutcase who gets angry when it appears the messages are not being conveyed to his target.

The story I enjoyed the most was the couple in the haunted house. It followed a standard storyline up to the twist that I didn't see coming.  

I'm not a big fan of anthologies as the stories aren't usually that good and aren't tied together convincingly.  Overall this was well done for an anthology.