The Shivers Collection: Five Otherworldly Short Stories to Scare You
The Shivers collection Jackknife by Joe Hill The Indigo Room by Stephen Graham Jones The Blanks by Grady Hendrix Night and Day in Misery by Catriona Ward Letter Slot by Owen King Amazon Originals (2025) *** Perhaps you know this about me already, but though I am an eclectic reader, if I am pressed to name the one genre I would choose as a favourite (perhaps in an “If you were stuck on a desert island and you could only have one genre of books, what would it be” type scenario) it would be horror. I haven’t done deep self-analysis as to why this might be, but it’s been a favourite from a young age. I don’t consider mystery or thrillers to be horror but they’re close cousins, and my earliest memory of a reading experience that really hooked me was the old Nancy Drew series. I co-solved lots of spooky mysteries with Nancy, Bess and George (and of course Nancy’s boyfriend Ned!). After that, Stephen King’s novels stole my teenage heart, with a smattering of Peter Straub added to the mix...
