The Shivers Collection

The Shivers Collection is made up of five punchy short stories from some of the biggest names in modern horror. (This is an Amazon original, so I regret to inform you that your options for reading are limited. But it is available on Kindle Unlimited, so there’s that.)

For my review, I will share a sentence from each that defines the story for me or that I most connected with.

Jackknife (Joe Hill) - “He felt she owed him a fuck”.

The Indigo Room (Stephen Graham Jones) - “If the meeting had been any more excruciatingly boring, Jennifer was pretty sure her soul would have sublimated up from the hair follicles of her scalp, transubstantiated into the refrigerated air of the office, and been recycled into . . . she didn’t know: Accounting up on the fourteenth floor? The parking garage under the building?”

The Blanks (Grady Hendrix) - “They shouldn’t have stayed out here past the end of the season” giving off very “The Summer People” by the great Shirley Jackson vibes.

Night and Day in Misery (Catriona Ward) - “There isn’t enough pain in the world to drown this out”.

Letter Slot (Owen King) - “When he dreamed of the future, he didn’t fantasize about being wealthy or famous. He just thought how nice it would be not to worry.”

Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Original Stories for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review. Pub. date: 4/15/25