The Best of Shivers

Featuring Stephen King, Peter Straub, Stewart O'Nan, Bentley Little, Jack Ketchum, Gary A. Braunbeck, Glen Hirshberg, Ed Gorman, Brian Hodge, Stephen Mark Rainey, Graham Masterton, Sarah Pinborough, Peter Crowther, Simon Clark, Brian Keene, Thomas Tessier, Ray Garton, Kaaron Warren, Norman Prentiss, and many others!

The Best of Shivers
edited by Richard Chizmar

About the Book:
In the summer of 2002, Richard Chizmar launched what would become one of the most popular horror anthology series of the last two decades when his new anthology called Shivers debuted at the Horrorfind convention in Baltimore, Maryland. To date, there have been seven volumes in the Shivers series, which have collected nearly 150 tales of horror and dark suspense by many of the bestselling horror authors of all-time, along with some of the most exciting new voices from the small press and independent publishers of terror. Almost all of these volumes are long out of print, some of them fetching high prices on the secondary market.

Now Cemetery Dance Publications is pleased to announce the first-ever "best of" Shivers, which will collect Richard's personal favorites from the series including stories by Stephen King, Peter Straub, Stewart O'Nan, Bentley Little, Jack Ketchum, Gary A. Braunbeck, Glen Hirshberg, Ed Gorman, Brian Hodge, Stephen Mark Rainey, Graham Masterton, Sarah Pinborough, Peter Crowther, Simon Clark, Brian Keene, Thomas Tessier, Ray Garton, Kaaron Warren, Norman Prentiss, and many others!

We don't expect the signed copies to last long, so be sure to reserve your copy today of what will prove to be one of our most exciting anthologies in years!

Table of Contents:
"The Crate" a novella by Stephen King
"Summer of '77" by Stewart O'Nan
"The Machinery of Night" by Douglas Clegg
"Walking With the Ghosts of Pier 13" by Brian James Freeman
"The Departed" by Clive Barker
"The Box Man" by Gary A. Braunbeck
"Fodder" by Brian Keene & Tim Lebbon
"The Sympathy Society" by Graham Masterton
"Underneath" by Kealan Patrick Burke
"The Burn Victim" by Sarah Langan
"Junkyard of the Damned" by Robert Morrish
"Last Wish" by Bentley Little
"The Storybook Forest" by Norman Prentiss
"Born Dead" by Lisa Tuttle
"The Holding Cell" by Jack Ketchum
"Fine Until You Called" by Thomas Tessier
"LZ-116: Das Fliegenschloss" by Stephen Mark Rainey
"The Man in the Other Car" by Al Sarrantonio
"White-Out" by Peter Crowther & Simon Conway
"A Night Out With the Boys" by Ray Garton
"Sleeping with the Bower Birds" by Kaaron Warren
"It Is the Tale" by Bev Vincent
"Red Rover, Red Rover" by Norman Partridge
"The Hand of Glory" by Simon Clark
"The Baby Store" by Ed Gorman
"Liturgical Music for Nihilists" a novella by Brian Hodge
"Long Overdue" by Sarah Pinborough
"Like Lick 'Em Sticks, Like Tina Fey" by Glen Hirshberg
"Dust" by Brian Keene
"A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter" a novella by Peter Straub

Reviews to come...

Richard Chizmar is the founder and publisher/editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He 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. Chizmar's 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 two World Fantasy Awards, four International Horror Guild Awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustees Award. Chizmar has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, guest speaker, panelist, and guest of honor.

Published in two states:
• Limited Edition of just 1,000 copies signed and hand-numbered by the editor and many of the authors (excluding King) bound in a fine cloth and Smyth sewn ($65)
• Deluxe Hardcover Lettered Edition of 52 signed and hand-lettered copies bound in leather, signed by the editor and many of the authors (excluding King), Smyth sewn with a satin ribbon page marker, raised hubs on the spine, custom gilded page edges dipped by hand, a full-color signature sheet, unique hot foil front cover stamping artwork, and full color illustrated endpapers not appearing in any other edition ($300)

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