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I received this book through GoodReads giveaway program and I'm so glad I did! If you like those spine-tingling tales, this is definitely the book for you! All the stories were well written and each had its own unique plot line. I would definitely recommend this book.
I'll read more of Scott Nicholson's work. His short piece in this collection is set in a post nuclear fallout world. The Dystopian theme is one of my favorites.
I've been having a hard time getting through some of my short story collections lately. In fact there's one that I've been reading for over a year now; I think I'm averaging about one story per month. I'm not sure why I'm so against short stories right now. I'm still enjoying novellas; it's just the short form. Maybe I'm looking for stronger character development or more reason to care. Something that is easier to find in novels and novellas. Even the SHIVERS series which is always strong with i...
1st: serial, by blake crouch & jack kilborn.heh! 'bout some serial killers. some nasty business in this story, the means of one...something you may not have read elsewhere. i believe it (the method) has reached a national audience. they get theirs2nd: the crate, stephen king.a crate is found by the janitor, a crate from june 19, 1843, if i remember rightly. and inside? heh! this story kinda goes along w/at least one, or more, of the 4 stories in full dark no stars, the theme of...misguided reven...
Pretty good anthology for Halloween, and several stories gave me the willies. I started with mini-reviews for each of the stories, but then got lazy. Aside from the ones below, I liked "Palisado", "Ghost Writer in My Eye", "I Found a Little Hole", and "Mole."A couple of stories got a little squicky, but I suppose that is to be expected in the horror genre.Rating: each story varies in the type and intensity of the content, throughout the book there is a range from PG to R, for strong language (f-...
Excellent collection of short stories. Contains:"Serial" by Blake Crouch & Jack Kilborn"The Crate" a novella by Stephen King"The Last Beautiful Day" by Brian James Freeman"Cobwebs" by Kealan Patrick Burke"The Old Ways" by Norman Prentiss"Waiting for Darkness" by Brian Keene"Like Lick 'Em Sticks, Like Tina Fey" by Glen Hirshberg"Ghost Writer in My Eye" by Wayne Allen Sallee"Palisado" by Alan Peter Ryan"Stillness" by Richard Thomas"In the Raw" by Brian Hodge"I Found a Little Hole" by Nate Southard...
Richard Chizmar is the editor of Cemetery Dance, both a quarterly magazine and a publishing house that specializes in horror/dark fantasy. As is obvious by the title, Shivers VI is the sixth entry in a series of horror/dark fantasy anthologies featuring original (i.e., not previously published) stories from a number of writers, including Brian Keene, Al Sarrantonio, Lisa Tuttle, Melanie Tem, David Silva, Peter Straub and Stephen King, among others. As always, some stories struck me more forceful...
On the whole a resolutely mediocre anthology, containing (despite the cover) surprisingly little supernatural fiction. Two crime stories (by Peter Straub and Brian Hodge) are among its best entries; there are also nifty exercises in unclassifiable bizarrarie by Nate Southard, a writer new to me, and the late, very much lamented Alan Ryan, returning all too briefly to a field in which he was once a dominant figure.
I received this book through GoodReads giveaway and I'm so glad I did because it contains a short story by Stephen King called "The Crate", which is a previously unpublished story. The first story in the collection called "Serial." This short story is about what might happen when two serial killers meet. All the stories were well written and each had its own unique plot line. I would definitely recommend this book.
On the whole, I enjoyed this anthology. Although not all the stories were to my taste (I mostly prefer supernatural horror; non-supernatural stories need to be especially atmospheric to hold my attention), there is a fine piece by Peter Straub, and a Stephen King story that is rarely anthologized. Also worth noting is Palisado, a neat atmospheric piece by one of the major figures in the 80s "quiet horror" movement. One piece that disappointed me was The Old Ways. From the name, I was expecting s...
I wanted to read the Blake Crouch story but then I saw that Stephen King had a story as well. I read both of those, and they were great stories. Blake Crouch's story was a bit gruesome and Stephen King's story, well, of course, it was 40 pages of great King. Happy Halloween, indeed.
