Shivers II

Shivers II
edited by Richard Chizmar

Trade Paperback: $20

About the Book:
Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to announce Shivers II, the sequel to last year's award nominated and bestselling anthology! Shivers II is a brand new anthology of terror, containing almost two dozen short stories from today's hottest writers, including Bentley Little, Douglas Clegg, Edward Lee, Ray Garton, Graham Masterton, Tom Piccirilli, Thomas Tessier, F. Paul Wilson, Rick Hautala, and many others! Featuring original dark fiction with a handful of rare reprints, Shivers II II is available only as a beautiful perfect-bound trade paperback.

"Anna" by F. Paul Wilson
"MO3:16" by Geoff Cooper
"The Machinery of Night" by Douglas Clegg
"Will You Tell Them I Died Quietly?" by Kealan Patrick Burke
"Marking the Passage of Time" by Brian Freeman
"Schoolhouse" by Rick Hautala
"Weakness" by Tom Piccirilli
"When Worlds Collide" by David Niall Wilson
"Slouching in Bethlehem" by Brian Keene
"Riding the Storm Out" by J.F. Gonzalez
"Fine Until You Called" by Thomas Tessier
"The Box Man" by Gary A. Braunbeck
"Something in Store" by Bev Vincent
"Can You Dig It?" by Garrett Peck
"The New Kid" by Al Sarrantonio
"Xipe" by Edward Lee
"A Better Man" by David G. Barnett
"A Night Out With the Boys" by Ray Garton
"Living in the Cemetery, Dancing the Dance" by Kelly Laymon
"The House of Dust" by Thomas F. Monteleone & Elizabeth E. Monteleone
"How Dead is that Doggie in the Window?" by Patricia Lee Macomber
"Junkyard of the Damned" by Robert Morrish
"Last Wish" by Bentley Little
"The Burgers of Calais" by Graham Masterton

"The book's best stories push the envelope of their themes or work effective variations on familiar horror story types. Douglas Clegg's "The Machinery of Night" is a creepy exploration of the deranged mind and the anomalies of physics and biology that might be possible if physical constants were as fluid and unpredictable as madness. Gary A. Braunbeck's "The Box Man" is a well-wrought Twilight Zone tale on the dark side of everyday experience. "Fine Until You Called," by Thomas Tessier, is a perfect black comedy in which a telephone solicitation for a medical charity leaves the unsympathetic protagonist irremediably self-conscious about his own mortality."
— Publishers Weekly

Richard Chizmar has edited more than a dozen anthologies, including The Best of Cemetery Dance, The Earth Strikes Back, Night Visions 10, October Dreams (with Robert Morrish), and the Shivers series.  His fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won numerous honors including two World Fantasy Awards, four International Horror Guild Awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustees Award.

Published as:
• Available exclusively as a trade paperback from Cemetery Dance Publications ($20)

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