- Paperback
- Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications (August 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587671174
- ISBN-13: 978-1587671173
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,876,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
With this third compilation of new and reprinted horror stories, Chizmar (Shivers II) establishes the Shivers series as the first nonretrospective horror annual in nearly a decade. There are selections to satisfy all tastes in terror, ranging from Meggan C. Wilson and F. Paul Wilson's "Itsy Bitsy Spider...," a giant spider infestation tale with overtones of 1950s B-movies, to Kealan Patrick Burke's "Underneath," a psychological suspenser spun from teenage angst. Thomas F. Monteleone's "Horn of Plenty," about a musical instrument that preys vampirically on a jazz musician, is a gracefully subtle dark fantasy at the opposite extreme from Edward Lee's "Please Let Me Out," a shamelessly puerile romp of erotic horror. There are highlights of both supernatural and nonsupernatural horror, including Tom Piccirilli's "This, and That's the End of It," a haunting afterlife fantasy fueled by powerful expressions of grief and loss, and Douglas Clegg's "Becoming Men," which evokes The Lord of the Flies in its gripping depiction of juveniles in revolt against authorities at a tough-love disciplinary boot camp. In contrast to previous volumes, this one leans more heavily on reprints, which represent most of the book's best selections. Nevertheless, the core horror audience for whom this anthology is intended will appreciate a series that has become as dependable for horror as Halloween.
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Pure Horror, May 16 2005
By Horror Reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Shivers III (Paperback)
This is the best collection of horror short stories I've read to date, whether magazine, ezine or anthology. Usually, in a good collection, you have to read four or five bad stories to get to one good one. A truely scary story is rare. Most of the stories in this collection are entertaining at worst. Some of the better stories include Underneath, Becoming Men, Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Questions of Doves, The Lingering scent of Brimstone, Please Let me Out, What they left Behind, and This House is Not My Home. The Itsy Bitsy Spider was scary enough to make my stomach hurt. Chizmar clearly knows how to put a collection of horrific stories together.
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fine diverse horror collection, Jan 30 2006
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Shivers III (Paperback)
This eighteen story horror collection features tales that first appear in this book though some will have probably reappeared elsewhere since. As were the cases of the previous two collections, SHIVERS III runs the gamut of horror from the supernatural to the psychological to the suspense. Douglas Clegg makes his third appearance with several newcomers to the series like Wrath James White provide entries. None of the contributions are sub par. Especially extraordinary are Meggan C and F Paul Wilson's "Itsy Bitsy Spider", Thomas Monteleone's "Horn of Plenty" (Satchmo - enough said) and the haunting "This, That's the End of It" by Tom Piccirilli. This is a fascinating anthology especially for readers who appreciate diverse shorts.
Harriet Klausner
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